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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
specific 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-defined 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-defined folder. The name of
the folder is the same as its associated user account. The name "guest-share" also
happens to be pre-defined as a group name. Additionally, there is a pre-defined folder
called "public" that initially is not associated with any user account. These properties are
summarized in the table below.
Pre-defined Name
public
admin
guest-share
Here are other initial properties of these pre-defined 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.
Group
@guest-share
User Account
admin
guest-share
Folder (Share)
public
admin
guest-share
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