Share a Mapped Drive

[Tocano]

We have several rather simple NAS devices (specifically Terastations:
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/).

Instead of having 15 different shares for our team and the users to
remember (and remember what resources are on which one) What I want
to do is create a single Windows file server that has a different
share for each of these devices and simply acts as a passthrough.
This will allow us to use this extra (RAID'd) storage while keeping
the interface simple and consistent.

Additionally, security is simplified/increased since:
- we can put these devices on private IPs to ensure that they are
only network accessible through the Win box
- by using the devices as mapped drives the win box connects to
them using a specific user/pass
- terastations don't natively deal with ADS well so by forcing
access through the win box, we would simply have to control the access
rights on the Windows shares, and thus can better and more easily take
advantage of ADS

However, when I map a drive to one of these devices, windows seems to
know that it's a share, and I do not have the ability to "share the
share" as it were. So is there a way to override this and share a
mapped drive?

Or if this isn't possible, is there another way I can accomplish what
I'm trying to do?

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[Greg O]

On Jul 11, 1:08 pm, Tocano <toc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have several rather simple NAS devices (specifically Terastations:http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/).
>
> Instead of having 15 different shares for our team and the users to
> remember (and remember what resources are on which one) What I want
> to do is create a single Windows file server that has a different
> share for each of these devices and simply acts as a passthrough.
> This will allow us to use this extra (RAID'd) storage while keeping
> the interface simple and consistent.
>
> Additionally, security is simplified/increased since:
> - we can put these devices on private IPs to ensure that they are
> only network accessible through the Win box
> - by using the devices as mapped drives the win box connects to
> them using a specific user/pass
> - terastations don't natively deal with ADS well so by forcing
> access through the win box, we would simply have to control the access
> rights on the Windows shares, and thus can better and more easily take
> advantage of ADS
>
> However, when I map a drive to one of these devices, windows seems to
> know that it's a share, and I do not have the ability to "share the
> share" as it were. So is there a way to override this and share a
> mapped drive?
>
> Or if this isn't possible, is there another way I can accomplish what
> I'm trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan

Maybe you could set the server up as a web server, then create ftp or
http sites for each of the shares. That way people have to log into
the server to access the ftp sites, each of which gets the files from
the share. For example ftp://yourserver/share1. These can also then be
laid out as hyperlinks on a main web page, users click on a link and
the ftp or http site opens or asks for authentication.