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ReadyNAS OS 6.1
Basic User and Group Concepts
Users are the people to whom you grant access to your storage system. If your company
uses Windows Active Directory, you can use that to manage ReadyNAS users. Otherwise,
when you want to allow someone to access your ReadyNAS system, you create a user
account for that person. The ReadyNAS storage system administrator sets up user accounts
and decides which folders and LUNs each user is permitted to access.
If your ReadyNAS storage system is used at home, you might create a user account for each
member of the family, but allow only the parents to access financial data stored on your
system. You might decide that all user accounts can access photos and music stored on the
system. You can set the appropriate permissions for each user.
The ReadyNAS system administrator can set up groups to make it easier to manage large
numbers of users. For example, if your ReadyNAS storage system is being used in a
business, you might decide that every employee should have a user account. However, you
might decide that only users in the accounting department can access information in the
accounting shared folder, but that all users can access data stored in the company benefits
shared folder. You can create a group for each department and place all users in the
appropriate group or groups.
Home Folders
Home folders allow each user to have a private folder matching his or her account name.
Home folders are always available over SMB and AFP protocols and are available optionally
over NFS and FTP protocols.
To enable home folders:
1. Select System > Settings > Home Folders.
2. Set the On-Off slider so the slider shows the On position to enable Home Folders.
3. Select the check boxes of the optional protocols to enable home folders over those
protocols.
User and Group Account Limitations
You can create up to 8,192 user accounts and up to 8,192 group accounts on your
ReadyNAS storage system. However, creating many accounts on your system can degrade
its performance, so NETGEAR recommends that you create and maintain only those
accounts you need, preferably fewer than 250.
When you add a user, a private home folder is created for that user. This private home folder
is visible only to the user and the system administrator.