Managing Shares, Groups, And Users - Planet NAS-1000 User Manual

4. Status
q Disk - Check disk usage. This data is read-only.
q Printer - Check the printer status, and delete the current print job, or all print jobs.
q System - Check System status. This data is read-only.
Storage Management
Use these options to manage Shares, Users, Groups, and access to shares. See the later section Manag-
ing Shares, Groups and Users for details.
1. Browse
Browse the Shares and folders on the Disk Server. This allows you to see the relationship between
Shares and folders on the hard disk, and to view the directory structure on the Disk Server.
2. Groups
View the current Groups, modify their access to Shares, and add or delete Users from any Group. Also
create new Groups, or delete existing Groups.
3. Shares
Create, delete and modify Shares. A "Share" is a folder (directory) which Users can access. Access
rights are set by Group rather than by individual user.
4. Users
View the list of existing users, and modify individual user data. Also create or delete individual users.
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The guest and admin users cannot be deleted.
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The admin user cannot be or moved from its existing group "ad-
ministrator" .
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By default, the admin user has no password. Assigning a password
is recommended.
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The admin user, and all other members of the administrator group,
always has Read/Write access to all shares and folders.
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The properties for the guest user cannot be changed.

Managing Shares, Groups, and Users

This section has additional information to assist the Disk Server Administrator in managing and controlling
access to the Disk Server.
Terminology
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A Share is a folder on the Disk Server which can be accessed by client PCs on the LAN.
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Access rights (Read-only or Read-Write) are granted to a Group (group of users), rather than to indi-
vidual users.
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Each Share can only be accessed by a single Group.
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A Group can have access to many Shares.
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Each individual User can belong to many Groups.
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