Administrator Guide

4 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 checkbox.
• To disable FTP, clear the Enable FTP checkbox.
7 This dialog box also displays Landing Volume and 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 on 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 regular le data.
• Symbolic links are not followed when accessed from snapshot 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 – File system utility that enables working with reparse points and modifying symbolic links policy
For more information about symbolic links, go to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680%28v=vs.
85%29.aspx.
Managing Quota Rules
Quota rules allow you to control the amount of NAS volume space that a user or group can utilize. Quotas are congured on a per NAS
volume basis.
When a user reaches a specied portion of the quota size (soft quota limit), an alert is sent to the storage administrator. When the
maximum quota size (hard quota limit) is reached, users cannot write data to the SMB shares and NFS exports on the NAS volume, but no
alert is generated.
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