Volume Properties

Volume is read-only

Setting the Volume to read-only prohibits Macintosh users from changing any documents on the volume or adding any new files or folders.

Allow guests to use volume

If you want a Macintosh user who logs into Access Connect as a guest to access the volume, check this checkbox.

Use Volume as home directory

To filter the contents of this volume so that it only shows a user their own home directory, check this checkbox. In order for this feature to function, the server-wide Enable Home Directory Support option in the File Server Settings dialog box must also be enabled; see the Access Connect File Server article.

Reset permissions on move

If you would like files and folders to always inherit permissions from their parent folder after they have been moved, check this checkbox .

Note: If the directory that is moved contains a large number of sub-folders, resetting the permissions can take awhile.

Enforce Filename Policy

Enforcing Filename Policy will prevent Macintosh clients from saving files to the server that do not comply with the filename policies that the administrator has set in the global Filename Policy settings.

Volume supports ACLs

Click this check box if you want the volume to support Access Control Lists.

Search Settings

Support Spotlight Search

Enables Spotlight searching on the individual volume by Mac OS X 10.5 or later clients. You must choose the desired type of indexing (Windows Search by default).

Windows Search

This type of indexing relies on Microsoft Windows Search. To enable Windows Search indexing, you have to make sure Microsoft Windows Search is installed on the Access Connect server and must be enabled on the Search tab of the Settings dialog before it can be enabled for the specific volume.

Acronis Content Indexing

This type of indexing is built-in Access Connect and only requires that you enable it on the Search tab of the Settings dialog before it can be enabled for the specific volume.

Support Catalog Search

Enables Catalog searching on the individual volume. This is the default built-in search method.

Indexing Options

Acronis Content Indexing

Index Type - Sets the type of indexing:

• Filename Only - Indexes files only by filename.
• Content & Filename - Indexes files both by filename and by their contents.

• Use custom index file path - To specify an alternate index file location for a volume, check this checkbox and select a path for the new index file location.

  Note: In a clustered environment, you must specify a folder on the shared (failover) disk.

• Update Index - Sets a time schedule for updating the index.
• Thread Priority - Sets the process priority for indexing this volume.
• Rebuild Index - Initiates the creation of a new search index for the volume. The previous search index will be used to satisfy search requests until the new indexing process has been completed.
• Update Index Now - Initiates an update of the existing index immediately.

Catalog Search

• Use custom index file path - To specify an alternate index file location for a volume, check this checkbox and select a path for the new index file location.
• Rebuild Index - Initiates the creation of a new search index for the volume. The previous search index will be used to satisfy search requests until the new indexing process has been completed.

ArchiveConnect

Bring online explicitly

ArchiveConnect is a separate Mac client-side application that enables Mac OS X clients to access file archives without triggering unintended retrieval of offline files. Normally, ArchiveConnect retrieves offline files automatically when a user double clicks to open them. This option requires the user to right click on an offline file and explicitly use a contextual menu option to bring the file online.

Time Machine

Support Time Machine backup

When you check the Allow Time Machine Backup box, Macintosh clients can use the selected Access Connect volume as a Time Machine backup destination. On the local network, Time Machine uses Bonjour to discover Time Machine supported volumes. Time Machine stores backup data as sparse disk image format or as HFS+. When you select a destination volume, Time Machine creates a disk image for the backup. By default, the Support Time Machine backup setting is disabled for a volume.

Note: You cannot enable Support Time Machine backup for volumes that are read-only or used as home directories.

When you enable Support Time Machine backup, Access Connect disables Volume is read only and Use volume as home directory. The opposite is also true.

Limit users without custom quotas to X GB

Check this box and enter a value to limit the size of Time Machine backups per user. When the Macintosh client connects to the server for the first time it sees the available space on the drive as whatever the quota was set to. On subsequent logins it will see the available space as the quota size minus however much space has been used by that user’s other backups. This quota applies to all users who do not have a custom quota assigned.

Note: Because Access Connect has to tell the Macintosh how much space is available immediately when the user logs in, prior to Time Machine opening a specific backup file, the quota is applied on a per user basis not a per machine basis. If a user backs up both a desktop machine and a laptop, the quota will apply to the combined size of the backups.

Custom quotas

This button opens the Custom Quotas window.