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4. Specify the email (optional) and phone number (optional) for the user.
5. Choose to send an email notification to the newly-created user (optional), fill out the message
details (including mail server (from NAS or local computer), sender, recipient, subject, message,
domain name/IP and link name) and choose to include SSL (https://) in the URL.
6. Click "Create".
Remote Connection
The remote connection service allows you to easily manage files across local devices, external devices,
cloud services and remote devices from a single interface. You can easily carry out file management
tasks such as copying and moving from remote to local devices or vice versa. The remote connection
service supports multiple cloud services (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive) and remote
device network protocols (such as CIFS/SMB, FTP and WebDAV.)
Create remote connections
1. Click the "Remote Connection" button on the "Menu Bar" > "Create remote connection".
2. Choose to connect to a remote storage via SMB/CIFS, FTP, or WebDAV.
3. Fill out necessary details (including the protocol, codepage, hostname/IP, username/password,
destination folder and connection name) and choose to enable support for multimedia playback
and thumbnail display (the system will generate thumbnails at the destination; if the destination
is another QNAP NAS, it must have QTS 4.2 or above installed)
4. Click "Create".
Check recent connection records
1. Click the "Remote Connection" button on the "Menu Bar" > "Connection record".
2. Review recent connection records and their details including the connection time, connection
name, protocol, Hostname/IP, port, account username, codepage and source path.
3. To sort the records, click on a header.
Check the current connection status
1. Click the "Remote Connection" button on the "Menu Bar" > "Current connection status".
2. Review the status of the current connections records and their details, including the connection
time, connection name, protocol, Hostname/IP, port, account username, codepage and source
path.
3. To sort records, click on a header.
Note:
For Remote Connection, the maximum number of connections that can be created per
NAS is 256.
OneDrive for Business is not supported for Remote Connection.