Assigning Users To Shared Folders - Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

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Assigning users to shared folders

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For any shared folder or USB disk, you can specify which users can access it and
what level of access they have.
When you add a user to the list of authorized users for a shared folder or USB disk,
that change takes effect immediately. However, if you remove a user from the list of
authorized users, or if you change the user's access rights, the change does not
take effect until that user disconnects from the shared folder or USB disk, or shuts
down the computer.
For example, the user Alice might have read/write access to the Budget shared
folder. If Alice is currently connected to that shared folder and you subsequently
remove her from the list of authorized users or change her access level to read-only,
she will continue to have read/write access to that folder until she disconnects or shuts
down her computer. The next time she connects, she will either not have
access (if she was removed from the list of authorized users), or she will be able to
only view the files there (if her access level was changed).
To change user access to shared folders and USB disks:
1. In the navigation bar, click Shared Folders.
2. In the Shared folders list, select the shared folder or USB disk whose user
access you want to change.
3. Click Assign Access.
4. Select the type of user that you want to assign, change the access level for, or
remove, and then click Next.
The operating system used by the user determines which option you should
choose—Windows/Mac OS X user (CIFS) or Linux/Other Mac user (NFS).
Note: Linux users and Mac users who are not using OS X access
shared folders using NFS. In this environment, access to shared folders is
given to
entire computers, not to individual users of those computers. However, in
Windows and Mac OS X environments, each computer user can have
individual access to a shared folder.
Although you can choose only user type at a time, you can assign both types of
users to the same shared folder.
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