Hello !First of all, I would like to say that I'm French and sometimes my English is not excellent, sorry if I do english mistakes...I'm not alone at home and I would like to share my NAS with my familly. I wonder if I can create sort of "disks" of an exact size for sharing with each person at home. It would be like allocating Space on my NAS to some users.There would be like 3 "disks" of 200 Gb in which the owner of that virtual "disk" could put some stuff. Those spaces should be protected so that one member of the familly shouldn't be able to access the spaces of the others.I've seen that we can create members on the guide but is that it ? I've also seen a "LUN" system but I'm not really sure what it is about...Thank you very much for your help !TennantSmith

I believe the best thing to do is to create users, create a share for each user and setup permissions on the NAS. Here's the manual and where you can find them, I belive you can configure it following the order below: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... ec2014.pdfCreate users and groups - page 130 Create a share - page 42Shared Folder Access Rights - page 47 Access NAS using a MAC OSX - page 61

Thank you for your answer !So all I have to do is creating a shared folder per person and then just using the access rights to block the other users and it should be okay ?I've read the pages you sent me but I cannot find where to put a maximum size allowed... Is it in the access rights ?Because one goal would be to ensure that the people that can access the NAS have a specific space allowed (like 200Gb for exemple).I've taken a big HDD and I know I won't use it all. The problem is that it seems that I cannot be sure that they won't be able to take more space than 200Gb according to what I've read...

You can't create space quotas on ordinary shares. My guess is that Netgear will add that feature in the future, but it requires some facilities in the BTRFS file system that aren't fully stable yet.If you want uses to have shares that only they can access, the NAS can be set up to do this automatically (creating "private" shares for each user you configure on the NAS).

Thank you for your answer !If I understand well, it is not yet possible to allocate a specific space for a user but it might be integrated within a further update ?Too bad for now then... But still, thanks for your answer !I'll try to create some folders within the NAS and use the permitions to ensure that only the right user can go to that specific folder and I'll check by myself to see how large the folder is then.One last thing, can the users have a specific ID and password to access their files with a mobile device or a computer with the desktop internet portal ?Because I know the adminiatrator can with the whole NAS but since it is for a unique folder (or maybe more if I share a folder with multiple users) does it work ? Can they have their own ID and password to access their onw files ?Thank you for helping me !TennantSmith

How you set this up depends in part of whether you use ReadyCloud or not. I don't use it, instead I use FTP (actually FTPS).You can use your login with FTP, and get to your home folder. There are several apps that can handle this, including ES File Explorer (android) and goodreader (ios). You do need to forward some ports to the NAS in the router, and get a dynamic DNS name (noip.com will give you a free one).Personally I allow all family members full access to all files, so my security is set differently from yours.

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rovingmedic
Tutor
Jan 08, 2015
As StephenB reported. The only quota that you can set is the size of personal TimeMachine Backup for each user to their HOME share. There are no other limits as to how much data a user can store on the ReadyNAS. An option that may be worth exploring, depending on which device you have, is to create 2 VOLUMES on your ReadyNAS: a "big volume" (e.g. 4 disks in RAID5) for general use and a small one (e.g. 2 disks in RAID1) for HOME Shares if you are using a 6 disk system. Alternatively, the big volume could comprise 2 disks in RAID1 on a 4 disk system. This arrangement wouldn't be feasible on a 2 disk system without sacrificing RAID redundancy. This would limit the size of all HOME shares combined to the size of the VOLUME containing them. The other VOLUME will not contain any HOME share data. Users will only be able to store data on the second VOLUME based on the access rights that you assign to the various SHARES on the second VOLUME. (Disclaimer: I have used a similar arrangement on both of my DUOs without redundancy, I have not tested it on OS6)

EDITED TO CORRECT PERSONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS

ReadyNAS Remote (incorrectly called ReadyDROP) is a remote access protocol that requires installation of a client app on each computer. You can access your ReadyNAS from anywhere with an internet connection. This has 2 separate logins: 1 for the web portal that creates a VPN link between your computer and the ReadyNAS and another for accessing the ReadyNAS once the link is established. This arrangement controls access to shared folders on the ReadyNAS using permissions set on the ReadyNAS Admin GUI. Once you are logged in on your ReadyNAs, accessing files on the ReadyNAS is much the same as accessing files on a USB stick connected to your computer. The way ReadyNAS Remote functions has been updated and incorporated into ReadyCLOUD.

ReadyDROP is a remote file sync protocol that requires the installation of an app on each computer that you want to keep in sync. The app monitors a ReadyDROP share on your computer and keeps it in sync with a ReadyDROP share on your ReadyNAS in real time from anywhere with an internet connection. This allows you to keep the latest version of a file available on every device that it is shared with.

I'm still checking out all the options and learning about this technology now, just like you. Unfortunately my RN316 has suffered a small mishap with the OS6.2 app delete issue, so am unable to test my knowledge. I will report my experience as soon as my unit is back up and running normally again.

In the mean time, check out these links:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... nas-remote
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... omputer%3F
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... -system%3F

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Jan 09, 2015

I'm sure I replied earlier, somehow it got lost (or more likely user error :shock: )

TennantSmith wrote:
I'm sorry, what do you mean by "CoW" ? @StephenB

TennantSmith wrote:
I'm sorry, what do you mean by "CoW" ? @StephenB

"Copy on Write".

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Cloning

TennantSmith wrote:
I have to create a folder that I would allow for only one user (as it will be his personal files) but that user will only have the possibility to access his files from the same internet connection as the NAS ?

You can also use the home folder feature of the NAS. Access over the internet is possible, and has nothing to do with quotas.

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