SimpleTech fv-u35 User Manual

When a USB drive formatted with the FAT or NTFS file system is connected to SimpleShare recognizes the drive as a “Foreign 

Disk,” and immediately makes it available to users on the network. The share name for foreign disks is set by SimpleShare, base 

on the file system used on the disk. The files on foreign disks are not modified by SimpleShare in any way. If the disk is later 

disconnected from the SimpleShare and attached to a Windows or Mac OS computer, it will still be readable by that computer. 

The shares created by SimpleShare for foreign disks are referred to as “Foreign Shares.” An unformatted drive connected to 

SimpleShare are recognized as “Blank Disk.” Before a Blank disk can be made available to network users, it has to be formatted 

or claimed by SimpleShare.

SimpleShare’s foreign disk support function makes it easy to attach a USB disk formatted with FAT or NTFS and share its files 

with other users on the network, with the following restrictions:

Disks formatted with NTFS are read-only

Foreign disks cannot be used for of mirroring

Foreign disks cannot be used for striping

Only share level access is provided for foreign shares (user base security, domain member and domain controller security 

is not provided)