Maintenance Manual

Managing the System
Network Shares
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Folder Aggregration
The Shared Folder Aggregation is used to build a hierarchical view of multiple file
servers and shares on the network. This feature can aggregate, that is, gather, all
shared folders within a local network into a "portal folder" on the NAS. Instead of
having to think of a specific machine name for each set of files, you can easily
access all shared folders by accessing the "portal folder."
NOTE This feature can only be used with either Samba or Microsoft Networking.
Assumptions for Example Configuration
For this example, users have full access rights to all remote shared folders.
NOTE If you have permission controls on remote shared folders, you should consolidate
with Microsoft Active Directory in your production environment. The reason for this
is because if any permissions are set on the remote NAS, the folder aggregation will
not work, unless Microsoft Networking is enabled. This is because the same local
username across multiple NAS devices might not have the same identity.
Therefore, the portal folder might appear to give the user access, but the user will
not have access to the sub-folders. Microsoft Networking enables this to work
because users are all from a common Microsoft Active Directory.