---
title: "Managing Shares"
slug: "managing-shares-21-1"
tags: ["Portal", "8.3"]
updated: 2025-06-24T04:12:13Z
published: 2025-06-24T04:12:13Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/managing-shares-21-1"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Managing Shares

The ability to manage the CTERA Edge Filer from the CTERA Portal matches the CTERA Edge Filer procedure.

1. Click the **DEVICES** option in the navigation pane.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-4XRR1EJI.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D)  

This page displays all of your devices that are registered to your account.
2. Select the CTERA Edge Filer with shares you want to manage.
3. Click the **Shares** tab.
4. Click **New Share**.  

The **Select a Folder to Share** wizard opens, displaying the volumes and folders on the CTERA Edge Filer.
5. Select the volume, folder, or subfolder on which you want to define the share.
  - To create a new subfolder to select as a nested share, select the parent folder, click **New Folder**, and then assign the subfolder a name.
  - You can define nested shares based on subfolders within your own cloud drive, which are available to users based on the permissions defined when creating the share. If the share has NT ACL settings, these settings are applied to the nested share and to every share below this share. For example, if the administrator has a personal cloud drive named *MyGateway*, to which he migrated a full old Windows File Server with the following structure:

```
/Cloud
/WIN-File-Server
  /Share1
  /Share2
/My Files
/Shared with me
```

If, before the Windows File Server migration, `\\Win-File-Server\Share1` and `\\Win-File-Server\Share2` shares were exposed in the old file server, users logged in to MyGateway can access the content of the shares: `\\MyGateway\Share1` and `\\MyGateway\Share2` after they are defined:

```
Share1 = \\MyGateway\Cloud\WIN-File-Server\Share1
Share2 = \\MyGateway\Cloud\WIN-File-Server\Share2
```
6. Click **Next** and then assign the network share a name.
7. Click **Next** to choose through which sharing protocols to expose this share.  

The **Sharing Protocols** window is displayed.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-FQKUU3DM.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D)  

Users access the shared files and folders through standard Windows client computers; for example, using Windows File Explorer through the SMB access provided by the CTERA Edge Filer.
          **Note**

          

**Windows File Sharing** is checked by default and cannot be deselected.

From the drop-down, select **Windows ACL Emulation Mode**. The share will be a Windows ACL emulation mode share.  

To copy the files with their ACLs to the CTERA Edge Filer, see **Copying Files From an External File Server to the CTERA Edge Filer** in the CTERA Edge Filer administration guide for your edge filer version, for example, for CTERA Edge Filer version 7.9.x, see [here](/v1/docs/managing-network-shares-5-1#copying-files-from-an-external-file-server-to-the-ctera-edge-filer).
8. Specify how you want to share the files.  

**FTP** – Users will be able to access and download files on this share from the FTP site. To configure the FTP server, go to **Shares > FTP Server**.
9. Click **Next**.  

The **Block File Types** window is displayed.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-KNVSH6YN.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D)
10. Check **Enable Blocking File Extensions** to block file extensions.  

Enter the file extensions per user and group:
  1. In the Local Users drop-down list, select one of the following:  

**Local Users** – Search the users defined locally on the CTERA Edge Filer.  

**Domain *domain* Users** – Search the users belonging to the domain called *domain*.  

**Local Groups** – Search the user groups defined locally on the CTERA Edge Filer.  

**Domain *domain* Groups** – Search the user groups belonging to the domain called *domain*.
  2. In the **Quick Search** field, type a string that is displayed anywhere within the name of the user or user group you want to add, or click **...** to list the users.  

A list of users or user groups matching the search string is displayed.
  3. Select the user or user group in the table.  

The user or user group is added to the list of users and user groups for who, you want to block some file extensions.
  4. For each user and user group, click in the **Extensions** field, and then specify the extensions to block, with each extension separated by a comma (,). List only the letters of each file extension. For example, to block EXE files, list the `exe` file extension; to block PDF files, list the `pdf` file extension. To block both EXE and PDF files, list them as `exe,pdf`. Blocked extensions are not case sensitive.  

Wildcards (for example, `*.exe`) are not supported.
11. Click **Next**.  

The **NFS (UNIX File Sharing)** window is displayed.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-SJX5V5KG.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D)
          **Note**

          

The NFS mount path for the share, when NFS access is enabled, is displayed.
12. Check the **Enable NFS Access** option to enable NFS clients to access the share. Both NFS versions 3 and 4 protocols are supported, depending on the protocol used by the client.
13. Click **New** to configure each client to which you want to grant access. A row is displayed in the table:

          **Note**

          

All shares on all edge filers for the same portal cloud folder **must** be NFS enabled.
  1. Enter the client's IP address in the **Host** field and the netmask in the **Netmask** field.
  2. Select the permitted level of access to the network share via NFS. Options are **None**, **Read Only**, or **Read/Write**.
14. Click **Next**.  

The **Configure Permissions** window is displayed.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-MO9FYHN0.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D)
15. Specify the share permissions.
          **Note**

          

These permissions are not inherited from the CTERA Portal.
16. Click **Next** and then click **Finish**.

Click ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-CPC0J72W.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A34%3A00Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A34%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=HllBjOFQpipP7Hs9%2F3j1WwWJ%2BNgyzmVMn8NJQsXHbaU%3D) next to the share to edit it or remove it.