Netgear RDD516 ReadyDATA Performance and Configuration Guide - Page 41

Volume Performance and Configuration on ReadyDATA Platforms Item Share (NAS) Description Click the Share (NAS) button, which is the default setting. Type Select the check boxes for the file-sharing protocols that you want to enable on the share: • SMB. Used mainly by Microsoft Windows computers and sometimes by Mac OS X computers. SMB uses TCP/IP. • NFS. Used by Linux and Unix clients. Mac OS X users can access NFS shares through console shell access. The ReadyDATA platform supports NFS over UDP and TCP. • AFP. Used by Mac OS X computers. • FTP. The ReadyDATA platform supports anonymous or user access for FTP clients. You can elect to set up port forwarding to nonstandard ports for passive FTP, allowing clients to initiate a connection to the ReadyDATA platform. Note: If the New Share pop-up screen displays a red triangle with an exclamation mark for a protocol (for example, ), the protocol is globally disabled. Size If you do not set a size, the share has unlimited access to the storage space on the volume, and the utilization rate of the share is greatly improved (over predefining the size) because storage space is assigned only as data is written to the share. By default, quota and reserve are not set when you create a share. Quota Reserve Select the Size check box and enter the size of the storage space that is available to the share. Select the Reserve check box to reserve guaranteed storage space for the share on the volume. Select the unit of measurement from the drop-down list: • MB. • GB. This is the default unit of measurement. • TB. 6. Click Create. The ReadyDATA platform confirms the creation of a share with the message "Data Set successfully created." The new share is added to the Shares & LUNs screen. Basic information is displayed to the right of the share. Configure Access Settings for an NFS Share For more information about access settings for shares, see "Set Up Access Rights to Shares" in Chapter 4, "Manage Shares and LUNs," of the ReadyDATA OS Software Manual, which you can download from http://downloadcenter.netgear.com. In addition to NFS, you can configure access settings for SMB, AFP, or FTP, or a combination of the file-sharing protocols. The following procedure uses NFS as an example.  To configure access settings for an NFS share: 1. Log in to the ReadyDATA platform using the default or your personalized login credentials. Configure Volumes, LUNS, Shares, and Security 41