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New ShareSpace Owner, have some questions

Hello all!

I got a 4TB ShareSpace probably 2 weeks ago, but haven’t had the time to set it up until now.

Long story short, I bought a Linkstation Quad about 6 months ago, and the drive controller died. The store where I bought it gave me the ShareSpace as a replacement.

The ShareSpace has quite a few more features. Really digging the ssh access into it, as SSH wasn’t supported on my last box.

So far, I’ve converted it to Raid 10. I only have 1.7TB of space now, but data protection has it’s costs…

A couple of questions:

I have disabled most services (MioNet, Twonky, iTunes, NFS, AFP, FTP), as CIFS is fine for my needs at the moment.

Twonky likes to restart after a reboot. Which file do I need to modify to avoid that?

Anyway I could modify a Twonky config file to point to a directory other than Public?

Does a folder have to be publically accessible for twonky to use (I imagine not)?

By default, there are 2 shares created. Public, Download and Configuration.

Is there anyway I can get rid of Public, Download and Configuration?

I don’t want unauthenticated users being able to access this device and there is no use for that share. Downloader isn’t an issue because I have a terminal server I can start DLs on. That configuration share is pointless.

I’ve read that the ShareSpace only supports Active Directory up to 2003. Can someone confirm this?

So far, the nas is great. Right now it’s currently wired directly to my mac with Jumbo Frames on and I’m getting around 15-20MB/s writes and 28-35MB/s reads. I’m picking up a gigabit switch later, but the performance should stay the same.

Hi there, try to contact TonyPh12345 on killing Twonky with SSL, he’s the one.

With the other things:

The 3 default shares are part of the firmware, so they can’t be erased without negative results.

Only 2003 active directory according to this support article http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2743/session/L3RpbWUvMTMxMTYzNjc3Ni9zaWQvMWQzYi1Vems%3D

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