User Authentication With An External Smb Server - Buffalo LinkStation 200 User Manual

Chapter 2 File Sharing
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Select the level of access for the user or group.
: Read and write
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Click OK.
Notes:
• If you change the LinkStation's name, you will no longer be able to use domain users and groups or access
restrictions. To repair this, rejoin the domain.
• The most restrictive access settings will always apply. For example, if both read-only and read and write
permissions are given to a user, the user will have read-only access.
• If a domain username is more than 20 bytes long, the LinkStation truncates it to 20 bytes.
• To use the LinkStation as a member server in an NT domain, the LinkStation should be logged in to the domain
and accessed from a computer that is not a member of the domain with a valid domain account.
• If the LinkStation is a member server of an NT domain, you cannot connect as a guest user via AFP.
• When you change the user or group settings on the domain controller, these changes may not take effect
immediately on the LinkStation until it is rebooted.
• If your LinkStation is a member server in an NT domain and you change the authentication method to
"Workgroup", the account on the domain controller will not be deleted automatically.
• If the LinkStation has joined a domain network, you cannot connect to it via FTP.
• Don't disable the SMB protocol while an NT domain server is used for access restrictions. If you do, you will need
to enable SMB again and reconfigure the NT domain settings from scratch.

User Authentication with an External SMB Server

LinkStations on your network can be linked to an external authentication server for centralized management of
user accounts and passwords. The authentication server should be another Buffalo NAS device. Other external SMB
authentication servers are not supported.
Notes:
• Disable SMB2 before using external authentication.
• Access restrictions for local users and groups will still apply to shared folders if an external SMB server is used for
authentication.
• The procedure below contains methods to automatically register external users. You can also manually add
external users by converting them from local users. Refer to the
section above for more details on converting local users.
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From Advanced Settings, click Network.
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Click the settings icon (
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Click Edit.
: Read-only : No access
) to the right of "Workgroup/Domain".
"Converting Local Users into External Users"
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