NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition - Manual (Page 59)

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide
Managing User Access 3-5
v1.3, November 2008
– OU (Organization Unit). You can specify nested OUs by separating OU entries with
commas. The lowest level OU must be specified first.
You can elect to have the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition automatically auto-detect the domain
controller, or you can specify the IP address. Sometimes auto-detect fails, and you need to supply
the IP address of the domain controller to join the domain.
If you have a large number of users in your domain, you may want to clear the Display users from
trusted domains... check box. The FrontView management system might slow down to an
unusable state.
Click Apply to join the domain. If Auto-detection is successful, users and groups from the domain
now have login access to the shares on this device.
Accounts are managed on the domain controller. The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition simply
pulls the account information from the controller and displays it in the Accounts tab screen if you
have the Display users from trusted domains… option enabled. If you wish, you can assign a
disk quota to the domain users and groups. If e-mail addresses are specified, users are
automatically notified when approaching and reaching their quotas.
Setting Up User and Group Accounts
In the User & Group Accounts security mode, the Accounts tab screen allows you to manage
user and group accounts on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition.
Managing Groups
To add a new group:
1. Select Manage Groups from the drop-down menu in the upper right corner.
2. Select the Add Group tab if it is not already selected. You can add up to five groups at a time.
If you expect to have just one big set of users for one group, you can forego adding a new
group and accept the default users group.
3. Click Apply to save your settings.
If you want, a user can belong to multiple groups. Once you have created user accounts, you can
specify secondary groups that the user can belong to. This allows for finer-grain settings for share
Note: NETGEAR does not recommend the use of the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition in
a domain environment with more than 10,000 users at this time.