User`s guide

Chapter One : Introduction
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview
American Megatrends StorTrends NAS software is a Linux®-based, high-performance
NAS server operating system.
Features
Feature Description
Microsoft®
Windows® 2000
Active Directory™
support
Active Directory™ presents organizations with a directory service designed for distributed
computing environments. Active Directory™ allows organizations to centrally manage and
share information on network resources and users while acting as the central authority for
network security. In addition to providing comprehensive directory services to a
Microsoft® Windows® environment, Active Directory™ is designed to be a consolidation
point for isolating, migrating, centrally managing, and reducing the number of directories
that companies require.
Active Directory™ is the integral directory service within the Microsoft® Windows® 2000
operating system. This service improves manageability, enables security and extends
interoperability between Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and other operating systems.
ACL (Access Control
List) support
An ACL is a table that tells the system’s operating system the access rights each user has to
a directory or file. The directory or file has a security attribute that identifies its access
control list. The list has an entry for each system user with access privileges, such as read
and write.
Note: Execute permission cannot be set from the Web-based UI (WebUI).
Microsoft® Windows® NT/2000, Novell® NetWare®, Hewlett-Packard® OpenVMS™
and UNIX® system-based systems are among the operating systems that use access control
lists. The list is implemented differently by each operating system.
snapshot support A snapshot service gives you a nearly instantaneous virtual copy of your storage volume
with no interruption of service. The underlying backup technology creates an instantaneous
copy of the data being backed up. This is typically accomplished by splitting a mirrored set
of disks or creating a copy of a disk block when it is written, preserving the original. At
restore time, the original is made available immediately, resulting in almost instantaneous
restores.
Note: Snapshots can be scheduled.
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