Administration; Overview - SMC Networks 7208SBR User Manual



Overview


Web Interface
The Barricade administrator can control Barricade usage by creating and managing
Users, Groups, and Shares.
Users: Each user is identified by their User Name and Password. The Admin-
istrator can create Users, and also limit the amount of Disk Storage available to
a user.
Groups: Users are organized into user Groups. A user can belong to many
Groups.
Shares: A "Share" is a folder (directory) on the Barricade which users can ac-
cess. Only the Barricade Administrator can create Shares. However, within a
Share, users who have access to that Share can create other folders (directories)
as well as files.
Access Rights: Access to a share can be "Read-only" or "Read-Write". To re-
duce administration workload, access to a Share is granted to a User Group,
rather than to individual users.
Note:
A Share can be accessed by only 1 Group, but a Group can access many
Shares.
The admin user, and any other users who are added to the administrator
group, ALWAYS have Read/Write access to ALL shares and folders.
The guest user has Read/Write access to the public share. This can be
changed, and access to additional shares can be granted, by changing the
access rights for the everyone group.
Users who do not have a User Name on the Barricade are automatically
given the guest login.
To create and manage users, groups and shares, a Web-style interface is provided.
The Barricade contains a HTTP server. This enables you to connect to it, and con-
figure it, using a Web Browser. The Web Browser must support JavaScript V1.1
The interface has been tested on the following Browsers:
Netscape Navigator 4.08 or later
Internet Explorer 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5
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