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5 Users and Groups
From this page, you can create, edit, and delete local
users and groups on the DataSafe NAS. You can also
change the members of each group. If the DataSafe
NAS is a member of a domain, you will not want to
create any users on the DataSafe NAS itself. The
primary purpose of this page is to add one or more
domain members to the local administrators group.
You may also want to use domain user and group
accounts to control access to resources on the
DataSafe NAS. You may also want to use domain
management tools to manage domain users and
domain groups.
Chapter sections:
This chapter contains the following main sections:
n “Manage Local Users” on page 93
n “Manage Local Groups” on page 99
Manage Local Users
A local user or group account is an account that exists
on the DataSafe NAS itself and can be granted
permissions from your computer. The DataSafe NAS
can also be configured to grant access to domain
users and groups. Domain users and groups are those
that exist in a Microsoft Windows NT 4 or Microsoft
Active Directory domain. You can add local users,
domain users, and domain groups to local groups.
However, you cannot add local users and groups to
domain groups.
Users and groups are important in Microsoft Windows
Powered security because you can assign permissions
to limit the ability of users and groups to perform