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From DDP OS V3.00.017, DDP users can now export any volume so that it appears as a NAS drive on the client machine.

First benefit of this is that no drivers installation is required as the OS is not filesystem aware of the drive.
As long as the client machine OS implements SMB protocol it will be able to connect the NAS volumes of DDP.

There are only two steps for enabling this feature:

1) Check the “Export to SMB” checkbox inside the Volume page of DDP GUI as shown in the picture below:

You can create new volumes in the same page by clicking the create button.

2) You now need to enable at least one user to access the exported volume.

To do that, go to the ‘Users’ page and click on one existing user, or create a new one as shown below:

Then click on the ‘Volumes’ tab to choose which volumes should be accessible by the user and click apply:

On a Mac (Finder), click Apple+K (smb://172.xx.x.x), on the PC click on Desktop and Ctrl+N (\\172.xx.x.x) , on Linux it works in a similar way, just type the correct DDP web IP address:

Enter the username and password of the corresponding user:

The NAS volumes will then appear. In Edit access of the Workflow Manager you can setup the folder permission rights.

This means you can specify which folders specific users have permission to use. For example; Read Only, Write Only, Read Write with No Delete, No Access etc.

To change folder permissions on typical NAS servers, you would need to have Active or Open Directory or MAM systems.

Note: For users having only OSX and Windows environments (no Linux machines), you can improve the SMB performance by entering a command in the DDP.

This command should not be entered if there are any Linux clients using DDP Volumes as a NAS share. Please contact our team if you need the best performance with SMB in OSX and Windows environments.