Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
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- Overview
- Applications To Manage Your NAS System
- Using Your NAS System
- Creating A Server Message Block Share
- Modifying Message Block Shares
- NFS Share
- Windows 2003 Domain Controller As Identity Mapping Source
- Windows 2008 Domain Controller As Identity Mapping Source
- User Name Mapping Server As Identity Mapping Source
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services As Identity Mapping Source
- Configuring AD LDS For Services For NFS
- Installing The AD LDS Server Role
- Creating A New AD LDS Instance
- Extending The AD LDS Schema To Support NFS User Mapping
- Setting A Default Instance Name For AD LDS Instances
- Updating The Active Directory Schema
- Adding User And Group Account Maps From A UNIX-Based Computer To A Windows-Based Computer
- Connecting To The Distinguished Name Or Naming Context
- Adding User Account Maps
- Adding Group Account Maps
- Authorizing Appropriate Access To The ADS LDS Namespace Object
- Configuring The Mapping Source
- Debug Notes For NFS Account Mapping Problems
- Restarting The Server For NFS
- Creating The NFS Share
- Creating Quotas And File Screens Using Share And Storage Management Wizard
- Creating Quotas And File Screens Using File Server Resource Manager
- Creating A New Volume
- Managing A Volume
- Extending A Volume
- Shrinking A Volume
- Deleting A Volume
- Enabling Or Disabling SIS On A Volume
- Enabling And Configuring Shadow Copies Of Shared Folders
- Performing Backup Of Your Server Using Microsoft Windows Server Snap-In
- Choosing Volumes To Backup
- Choosing A Storage Location
Creating Quotas And File Screens Using File Server Resource
Manager
Quotas and File Screens can be created using the wizard File Server Resource Manager
NOTE: You can either use File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) from Administrative Tools or Share and Storage
Management for your Quotas and File Screen operations.
1. Click Start → Administrative Tools → File Server Resource Manager.
2. Click Quota Management to display Quotas and Quota Template.
3. Click Quota, either right-click or use the Create Quota option from the right pane.
4. Follow the wizard, select the path (volume or folder in which you want to create the quota), set your preferred
Quota Properties and click Create.
The newly-created quota is displayed in the central pane.
5. Select any of the existing quotas and right-click or use the options in the right pane to change the quota properties.
6. Click File Screening Management → File Screens.
7. Either right-click or use Create File Screen option from the right pane.
8. Follow the wizard, select the path (volume or folder in which you want to create the file screen), select your
preferred File Screen Properties and click Create.
The newly-created file screen is displayed in the central pane.
9. Select any of the existing file screens and right-click or use the options in right-most panes to change the file
screen properties.
Creating A New Volume
To create a new volume:
NOTE: Backup Operator or Administrator is the minimum membership required to perform this configuration.
1. From your NAS system or remote desktop, open disk management, select the Rescan Disks option.
The central pane lists the LUNs of storage located on your NAS system.
NOTE: The default status for the newly-created LUN in Disk management is Unknown and Offline.
2. Select the Disk, right-click, and select the Online option.
Now the disk is seen as Unknown and Not Initialized.
3. Select the Disk, right-click, and select the Initialize Disk option. In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to
initialize.
A pop-up window to select the partition style for the selected disks is displayed with the following options:
– MBR (Master Boot Record)
– GPT (GUID Partition Table)
4. Select a partition style and click OK.
NOTE: The disk is initialized as a basic disk.
5. In the middle pane, select the disk and run the New Simple Volume… wizard.
6. Select the volume size, assign the drive letter, choose the file system type, type in the volume label, select the
format option, and complete the volume create operation.
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