Drobo 5N 5-Bay NAS Review

Setup – Users and Shares

Shared Folders

Creating and managing shared folders are easy on a Drobo NAS. One of the reasons that it is as simple as it is, is that you only got one volume to deal with and as such don’t need to worry about a lot of settings that you might need to pay attention to on other systems. Both shares and users are managed from a single sub-window as seen below.

Select an existing share to edit or delete it, or add a new one while simultaneously control the access rights for your created users.

Creating a new shared folder is as easy as entering a name for it. You can also enable time machine for each share and limit the backups size for it.

We’ve created a new share now and selecting it will show us the access rights for the users. Changing the rights for a user is as simple as clicking the icon until you have the setting you want. No access, read and write, or just read. Admin users will naturally always have full access to all shares.

Creating new users is just as simple. Switch to the users tab and hit the Add button to get the prompt for this. Enter a username and a password and that’s it. The new user is created once you hit the OK button.

Having selected the users tabs switches the two treeview columns below around so you have users to the left and shares to the right – but it works the same way as when we had the shares selected – just in reverse.

I’ve selected my newly generated user here and as we see, it shows us what folders that user has what rights to access.