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S TORAGE S ERVER U SER ’ S G UIDE
Groups
• View the current Groups, modify their access to Shares, and
add or delete Users from any Group.
• Create new Groups, or delete existing Groups.
Shares
• Create, delete and modify Shares. A "Share" is a folder
(directory) which Users can access.
• Access rights are set by Group rather than by individual user.
Users
• View the list of existing users, and modify individual user data.
• Create or delete individual users.
Remember:
• The guest and admin users cannot be deleted.
• The admin user cannot be removed or moved from its
existing group, "administrator”.
• By default, the admin user has no password. Assigning a
password is recommended.
• The admin user, and all other members of the
administrator group, always have Read/Write access to
all shares and folders.
M ANAGING S HARES , G ROUPS , AND U SERS
This section assists the Storage Server administrator in managing
and controlling access to the Storage Server.
Terminology
• A Share is a folder on the Storage Server which can be
accessed by client PCs on the LAN.
• Access rights (Read-only or Read-Write) are granted to a
Group (group of users), rather than to individual users.
• Each Share can only be accessed by a single Group.
• A Group can have access to many Shares.
• Each individual User can belong to many Groups.