Shares 22
What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 22
Adding Shares 22
Managing Shares 23
Deleting Shares 24
Using Protocols to Share Files 25
What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 25
AFP File Sharing for Macs 25
Bluetooth File Sharing 25
FTP File Sharing 26
NFS File Sharing 26
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 27
TFTP 27
Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 27
Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 28
WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 28
Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 29
Windows File Sharing 29
Sharing Content through the Home Page 30
Sharing Your Content with the World 30
Adding a Custom Home Page 30
Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 32
How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 32
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 33
Managing Your Content 34
Transferring Content to and from Your ix2 Network Storage with Copy Jobs 35
Copy Jobs Limitations 35
Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 36
Safely removing external storage 36
iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 37
iSCSI Overview 38
Adding iSCSI Drives 39
Enabling iSCSI Drives 39
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 39
Managing iSCSI Drives 40
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 40
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