About Nas Drive User Accounts - Verbatim NAS HARD DRIVE User Manual

About NAS Drive User Accounts

The NAS drive keeps track of data stored by its network users by managing the data's destination
folder (also referred to herein as a "shared folder" or simply a "share"). Furthermore, the NAS
drive must keep track of who may read from, and write to, each folder. It does this by setting up
user accounts and groups. A group is a collection of specifi c user accounts. When you assign
access privileges to a new share you have the option of either making assignments for individual
user accounts, or for an entire group of users at once by referring to the group's name.
The default factory settings provide for two pre-defi ned user accounts, each with their own
unique properties. These user accounts are:
• admin
• guest-share
Each of these two user accounts has an associated pre-defi ned folder. The name of the folder is
the same as its associated user account. The name "guest-share" also happens to be pre-defi ned
as a group name. Additionally, there is a pre-defi ned folder called "public" that initially is not
associated with any user account. These properties are summarized in the table below.
Pre-defi ned Name
public
admin
guest-share
Here are other initial properties of these pre-defi ned groups, accounts, and shares:
• The folder "public" can be accessed by anyone on the LAN who has set up a user account.
Access to this folder requires authentication using your user name and password.
• The folder "guest-share" can be accessed by anyone on the LAN, even if they have not set up
a user account. Access to this folder does not require entering a user name and password.
This folder can also be accessed by anonymous FTP.
• The group @guest-share contains two members, which are user "admin" and user "guest-
share".
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Group
@guest-share
User Account
admin
guest-share
Folder (Share)
public
admin
guest-share