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FredDogsMum
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Complete Beginner Needs Help

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Hi Peeps - So I am a NAS virgin and as you will discover a bit of a technophobe :DD . I just purchased a 2 bay T220 to replace using drop box in my home office which is a two computer setup over a LAN.

I have managed to set up the hardware and the software on my PC and I have moved all of my shared files over and they all sync when I change something either directly on my PC or if I go onto the NAS which I can see on the network. Changes are quickly reflect on my PC or the NAS which is great. I have also mapped the network drives to the folders I created although if I am honest I am not sure why this is necessary.

Now this is where my confusion starts. I have an employee so I have created a new user for him and managed to restrict the access to just the files I want him to have access to. From his machine I have logged on to the NAS drive via the network and I had to put in his user and password and it all worked great. The bit I just can not get my head round and the manual doesn't give this away easily is how do I get his PC to sync up with the files so he works off his PC and not directly on the NAS drive. I am guessing I need to download some software on to it, but what software and where can I download it from. Then do I log on as him or as me the administrator.

Sorry if this is a really stupid question and thanks in advance for any help.

Helen x
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dolbyman
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Re: Complete Beginner Needs Help

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why exactly is the employee not supposed to work on the network/NAS directly ?
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Its my understanding that he works on his PC and I work on mine and the NAS synchronizes all the files in the back ground. So if I create or update document A on my PC. The NAS will take a copy of that put it on the NAS drive then put a copy on his PC.
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nahh ...

so what if that employee does a change to his document, you do a change to yours.. and your changes get synced over the employees changes .. all the employee changes are lost

I think you need to create a better strategy for your file management here
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