NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition - Manual (Page 57)

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide
Managing User Access 3-3
v1.3, November 2008
device itself. Also, in this security mode, each domain/ADS user is automatically set up with a
private home share on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition.
User Security Mode
This option is ideal for medium-size offices or workgroups. Select this option if you would like to
control access to shares based on user or group accounts and if your network does not utilize a
domain controller for authentication.
If you select this option, you will need to create a user account for anyone accessing this device.
This option supports setting disk quotas on a per-user or per-group basis.
In User security mode, you specify a workgroup name, and create user and group accounts. You
have control over how much disk space is allocated for each user or group.
Each user is given a home share on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device that the user can
use to keep private data such as backups of the user’s PC. This home share is accessible only by
that user and the administrator in order to perform backups of the private shares. The option to
automatically generate the private home share is controlled in the Accounts/Preferences tab, and
you can disable it if you wish.
To set up the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition for this security mode, you need the following
information:
• Workgroup name
• Group names you wish to create (for example, Marketing, Sales, Engineering)
Note: The FrontView management system slows down in proportion to the number of
users in the domain. Do not use Domain mode in an environment with more
than 10,000 domain users.
Figure 3-2
Note: Private user shares are accessible only by users using CIFS (Windows) or
AppleTalk file protocols.