Administrator Guide

– Names containing any of the following characters are not allowed:
* . and ..
* @Internal&Volume!%File
– Names that have a sux of four, or multiple of three, characters between two ~ signs. For example, ~1234~ and ~123123~
are not allowed.
Enable or Disable FTP
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System pane, expand Environment and then click Authentication.
4. In the right pane, click the Protocols tab.
5. Scroll down to FTP Protocol and click Edit Settings. The Modify FTP Settings dialog box opens.
6. Enable or disable FTP.
• To enable FTP, select the Enable FTP Conguration check box.
• To disable FTP, clear the Enable FTP Conguration check box.
7. This dialog box also displays Landing Volume and a Landing Directory elds. To change the Landing Volume or Landing
Directory, click Select next to each eld.
8. Click OK.
Using Symbolic Links
A symbolic link is a special type of le that contains a reference to another le or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path
and that aects path name resolution. Symbolic links operate transparently for most operations: programs that read or write to les
named by a symbolic link behave as if operating directly on the target le. The symbolic link contains a text string that is
automatically interpreted and followed by the operating system as a path to another le or directory. Local le system symbolic links
are available in NTFS starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, but the symbolic links over SMB are available only with
SMB2.
Limitations for Using Symbolic Links
When using symbolic links, note the following limitations:
• SMB1, FTP, and NFS do not support symbolic links.
• Symbolic links are limited to 2,000 bytes.
• User and directory quotas do not apply to symbolic links.
• FluidFS space counting does not count symbolic link data as a regular le data.
• Symbolic links are not followed when accessed from snapshots view; they appear as regular les or folders.
• If a relative symbolic link was moved to another location, it might become invalid.
• Cloning SMB symbolic links is not supported.
File Access
Symbolic links are enabled by default. You cannot congure symbolic links in FluidFS, but you can access them using the following
Microsoft tools:
• mklink – basic utility used to create both symbolic and hard links (hard links are not supported over SMB, but locally only).
• fsutil – le system utility that enables working with reparse points and modifying symbolic links policy.
For detailed in formation about symbolic links, go to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
aa365680%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.
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