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invitation by entering a user's email address along with any additional comments. A user then
receives the invitation, which contains the Personal Cloud name and username and
password. A user enters that information from LenovoEMC Storage Manager. For more
information on this, refer to the online help with LenovoEMC Storage Manager. You see this
option only if a Personal Cloud has been created on the ix2.
● Allow this user to add trusted devices to my Personal Cloud — check this box to allow a
user to join a trusted device to a Personal Cloud. A trusted device is a machine, either a
computer or another ix2, that belongs to an added user. Only trusted devices that belong to
users that have been added to the ix2 can join the LenovoEMC Personal Cloud. This option
displays only if a Personal Cloud has been created on the ix2.
5. Click Create.
Managing Users
The page describes how to:
● Change User Information
● Change Access Permissions
● Set Quotas
Changing User Information
1. Modify the following information:
● Username — enter the username of the user to be created. This will be the username provided
when logging into the ix2 Network Storage. There is a maximum of 32 characters, and spaces
are not allowed. The following are not valid usernames: root, daemon, bin, sys, sync, mail,
proxy, www-data, backup, operator, sshd, postfix, nobody, unuser, guest, and rsync.
● Descriptive Name — add a descriptive name to identify the user. For example, if you created
a user with a Username of jsmith, you may want to add the Descriptive Name Joe Smith.
● Password — create a password for the user. The password should be between 8 and 12
characters, and spaces are not allowed.
● Confirm Password — confirm the password. If the text in this field does not match the text in
the Password field, an error will be returned.
● Send a Personal Cloud invitation — click this link to invite a user to join your Personal Cloud
on the ix2. This opens the Send a Personal Cloud Invitation dialog box where you create an
invitation by entering a user's email address along with any additional comments. A user then
receives the invitation, which contains the Personal Cloud name and username and
password. A user enters that information from LenovoEMC Storage Manager. For more
information on this, refer to the online help with LenovoEMC Storage Manager. You see this
option only if a Personal Cloud has been created on the ix2.
● Allow this user to add trusted devices to my Personal Cloud — check this box to allow a
user to join a trusted device to a Personal Cloud. A trusted device is a machine, either a
computer or another ix2, that belongs to an added user. Only trusted devices that belong to
users that have been added to the ix2 can join the LenovoEMC Personal Cloud. You see this
option only if a Personal Cloud has been created on the ix2.
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