Apologies if this asks to much in one thread. Mods: Let me know if you prefer I break things out.
Santa brought us a DS-718+ and I've got it set up. It currently only has one disk in it, but I plan to add to it. A fair criticism is that I am likely not using its full capabilities, so I'd like some help with that. I had basic plans for it:
1. Central file repository;
2. Central backup location;
3. Music serving (Plex).
What else should I consider using this for, considering this is a household NAS?
Misc questions:
1. I've set up users, but for any user to access the NAS, even from a trusted computer, requires login and password. Do I need to map network drives to eliminate the log in?
2. I've given all the users permissions to most folders, but what I really want is for their log in view to default to their storage folder on the NAS. How do I do that?
3. For backups, I tried Active Backup for Business, but didn't care for it. I like to do one full backup per month and an incremental once per week. It seemed to me that ABB would only do full backups. Even if it did both, I'd have to uninstall Macrium (which I'm happy with) and install ABB on each computer. I'm not seeing what switching gets me that I don't already have.
4. Not thrilled with the fact that I can only listen to 1 minute of my own music on my own server with Plex. Would love another option.
5. Lastly, I have a daughter headed to college in the fall (if the world isn't over). While I'm sure she will have the college version of Google Drive or Dropbox on the university's servers, I'd like to set her up with the same on our NAS. That way, if we need to transfer documents to her with social security numbers or financial information, we can do so without it going into someone else's hands. I'm confident that's possible, but dont know how to do that. Note that I'd also like to see her have access to it through her phone, if possible (ios).
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or thoughts.
CheapDad
Santa brought us a DS-718+ and I've got it set up. It currently only has one disk in it, but I plan to add to it. A fair criticism is that I am likely not using its full capabilities, so I'd like some help with that. I had basic plans for it:
1. Central file repository;
2. Central backup location;
3. Music serving (Plex).
What else should I consider using this for, considering this is a household NAS?
Misc questions:
1. I've set up users, but for any user to access the NAS, even from a trusted computer, requires login and password. Do I need to map network drives to eliminate the log in?
2. I've given all the users permissions to most folders, but what I really want is for their log in view to default to their storage folder on the NAS. How do I do that?
3. For backups, I tried Active Backup for Business, but didn't care for it. I like to do one full backup per month and an incremental once per week. It seemed to me that ABB would only do full backups. Even if it did both, I'd have to uninstall Macrium (which I'm happy with) and install ABB on each computer. I'm not seeing what switching gets me that I don't already have.
4. Not thrilled with the fact that I can only listen to 1 minute of my own music on my own server with Plex. Would love another option.
5. Lastly, I have a daughter headed to college in the fall (if the world isn't over). While I'm sure she will have the college version of Google Drive or Dropbox on the university's servers, I'd like to set her up with the same on our NAS. That way, if we need to transfer documents to her with social security numbers or financial information, we can do so without it going into someone else's hands. I'm confident that's possible, but dont know how to do that. Note that I'd also like to see her have access to it through her phone, if possible (ios).
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or thoughts.
CheapDad