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C
onnecting NAS Drive Using
E
t
h
ernet
Installing the NAS drive using Ethernet requires that you have an available
Ethernet
p
ort on a router or switch.
Before attempting to establish a connection to the network it would be
use
f
ul
fi
rst to review some background in
f
ormation about how the NAS
d
rive
h
an
dl
es
d
ata over t
h
e networ
k
. Basic to t
h
is un
d
erstan
d
in
g
are t
h
e
f
undamental concepts o
f
user accounts and shared
f
olders.
A
bout NA
S
Drive
U
ser Accounts
The NAS drive kee
p
s track of data stored b
y
its network users b
y
mana
g
in
g
th
e
da
t
a
’
s
des
tin
a
ti
o
n
f
olde
r
(also re
f
erred to herein as a “shared
f
older” or
sim
p
l
y
a
“
s
har
e
”
). Furthermore, the NAS drive must kee
p
track of who ma
y
read from, and write to, each folder. It does this b
y
settin
g
u
p
use
r a
cco
un
ts
a
n
d
g
r
o
up
s
.
A group is a collection o
f
speci
fi
c user accounts. When you
assi
g
n access
p
rivile
g
es to a new share
y
ou have the o
p
tion of either
makin
g
assi
g
nments for individual user accounts, or for an entire
g
rou
p
o
f
users at once by re
f
erring to the group’s name
.
The default factor
y
settin
g
s
p
rovide for two
p
re-defi ned user accounts, each
w
it
h
t
h
eir own unique properties. T
h
ese user accounts are:
ad
min
•
guest-shar
e
•
Each of these two user accounts has an associated
p
re-defi ned folder.
Th
e
n
a
m
e
of
th
e
fo
l
de
r i
s
th
e
sa
m
e
as
it
s
assoc
i
a
t
ed
use
r
accou
nt. Th
e
name “
g
uest-share” also ha
pp
ens to be
p
re-defi ned as a
g
rou
p
name.
Additionall
y
, there is a
p
re-defi ned folder called “
p
ublic” that initiall
y
is not
associated with any user account. These properties are summarized in the
table below
.
Pre-defi ned Name Group User Account Folder (Share)
p
u
bl
ic
p
u
bl
ic
a
d
mi
n
a
d
min
ad
mi
n
g
uest-s
h
ar
e
@
g
uest-s
h
are
g
uest-s
h
ar
e
g
uest-s
h
are