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Removing a group
In local authentication mode, removing a group does not remove the
users that are members of that group; it simply means that the group
will no longer appear in the Groups list on the Groups page. The users
remain listed on the Users & Computers page. (In Active Directory
authentication mode, you cannot remove a group on the storage
system. That can be done only on the Active Directory server.)
However, removing a group can affect access to shared folders. When
you remove a group, the members of that group will no longer have
access to any shared folders that the group was authorized to access
unless they were granted individual access as well.
For example, the Executives group might include Alice, Bob, and
Carlos, and that group might have read/write access to the Budget
shared folder. If you remove the Executives group, Alice, Bob, and
Carlos remain users, but they will no longer have any access to that
shared folder.
On the other hand, if the Executives group had read/write access to the
Budget shared folder, but Alice had read-only access, when you
remove the group, Bob and Carlos will no longer have access to the
Budget shared folder (since their access rights were determined by
their group membership), but Alice will continue to have read-only
access, since that access right was granted to her on a user level.
To remove a group:
1 In the navigation bar, click Users.
2 In the left pane, click Groups.
3 In the Groups list, select the group that you want to remove.
4 Click Remove.
Note: If the storage system uses Active Directory authentication
mode, this button displays dimmed.
5 Click OK. The group no longer displays in the Groups list.
4 Managing the storage system