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ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition User Guide
3-2 Managing User Access
v1.0, December 2008
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 Pioneer 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.
Setting Up User and Group Accounts
In User & Group Accounts, the Accounts tab screen allows you to manage user and group
accounts on the ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer 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
access. For instance, you can have user Joe in the Marketing group also belong to the Sales group
so Joe can access shares restricted to only the Marketing and Sales groups.
While adding a new group, you can specify the amount of disk space you wish to allocate that
group by setting a disk quota. A value of 0 denotes no limit. You can also set the Group ID, or
GID, of the group that you are adding. You can leave this field blank and let the system
automatically assign this value unless you wish to match your GID to your NFS clients.
Note: Private user shares are accessible only by users using CIFS (Windows) or
AppleTalk file protocols.