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Fill in the initial screen with a
U
ser Name and Password. It is
recommended that these fi elds match the User Name and
Passwor
d
t
h
at t
h
is user norma
ll
y enters w
h
en
l
ogging into
Windows or to Mac
OS
X. The
U
ser Name must be lower-case
and ma
y
be a maximum of 20 al
p
hanumeric characters, without
spaces. T
h
e User Name must
b
egin wit
h
an a
l
p
h
a
b
etic c
h
aracter.
Note: If
y
our Windows username currentl
y
contains a s
p
ace character,
or begins with a number, you may want to modi
f
y your Windows
u
sername slightly so that it can
f
ollow the same
f
ormat required by the
NAS
d
rive. For Mac OS X user accounts,
y
our username is automatica
lly
saved without spaces as a
fi
eld called “Short Name”. In this way the
“Short Name” alread
y
follows the format re
q
uired b
y
the NAS drive
.
Also
fi
ll in the password. The password may be a maximum o
f
1
6 al
p
hanumeric characters, without s
p
aces. If
y
ou leave the
p
assword
fi
eld blank, the NAS drive will accept this as a null
p
assword. This means that you will not need to
fi
ll in any password
in the future when accessin
g
the NAS drive usin
g
this username.
A descri
p
tion of this user ma
y
o
p
tionall
y
be entered in the fi eld
p
rovi
d
e
d
.
I
f
you want to create a private
f
older that only this network user
can access, then check the box marked “Create Private Folder”.
This folder cannot be accessed via the “admin” user account
or any other user account. The
f
older name will automatically
be given the same name as User Name. The path o
f
your newly
created
p
rivate folder will automaticall
y
be set to /mnt/IDE1.
T
h
ou
gh
in some environments t
h
e NAS
d
rive su
pp
orts a
q
uota
fea
t
u
r
e
th
a
t limit
s
in
d
ivi
dua
l
use
r
accou
nt
s
t
o
a
m
a
xim
u
m
a
m
ou
nt
o
f
storage space on the drive, this
f
eature is grayed-out and is
not selectable in the factor
y
default condition. This is because
the de
f
ault disk
f
ormat type FAT32 does not support the quota
f
unction. I
f
user account disk quotas are important to you, then
y
ou should consider reformattin
g
the drive to EXT2 or EXT3
f
ormat, as described later in section “NAS Administration
Re
f
erence”
.
When done with this
f
orm, press
Ne
xt to cont
i
nue
.