Advanced Setup
3. Advanced Setup
The Advanced menu offered options for more detailed configuration changes. Under the heading of user-management, I could create, delete and change individual user accounts, but found no explicit "Group" management capabilities. Under the Samba menu heading, I found that I could change the same options that appeared under the Basic menu, but could also define and manage network shares, or "Sessions" as the menus call them. Sessions could be restricted to to individual users or defined as read-only for all users.
On the Add Session screen (Figure 4), I was puzzled by the specification for the disk path to be shared. As shown in Figure 4, the Path item includes a textbox for the path specification, and an Open button.
Figure 4: Setting shared folders on the TS-U200
Pressing the Open button or attempting to type into the form textbox both produced a nearly blank screen with another textbox and an OK button, as shown in Figure 5. And any attempt to type into this textbox was erased immediately, while pressing OK simply returned me to the original form with no changes.
Figure 5: This mystery textbox resulted from browser compatibility issues
Eventually I realized this text-entry form just didn't work properly wither with my Safari or FireFox browsers. It worked correctly only with Internet Explorer, where it listed all shares available for selection, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Setting shared folders on the TS-U200
Tip: As a work-around when using my other browsers, I learned that I could "View source" for the configuration Web page, then cut-and-past the proper value from the source into the field inside the browser itself.
Once Sessions are defined, they can be modified or deleted quite easily, and the final Samba menu enables share access to be restricted on the basis of IP address. After I set up my network shares / sessions, I was able to mount and use them normally from all operating systems on my LAN including my Windows XP laptop, Macintosh iBook, and Linux laptop.
Next, I went into the CR Backup menu where I was allowed to specify which disk to use to back up memory cards. Once I had this configured, I performed a quick test by inserting a Compact Flash card into the unit, and pressing the Backup button on top. After a few seconds I checked my destination drive, where I found a new directory named with the current date and time at the time of backup. Inside that directory, I found a copy of the directory structure from my Compact Flash card. Very handy!
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