The Administrative Menu-Storage Management; Managing Shares, Groups And Users - Linksys EFG40 User Manual

The Administrative Menu—Storage Management
The Storage Management options manage the Instant GigaDrive's shares,
users, and groups. This section is only meant as a brief introduction. The fol-
lowing section, Managing Shares, Groups and Users, expands on what you
will read here.
Groups
Groups are collections of users created to manage access to
shares.
• View the current groups, modify their shares access, and add
or remove users from a group.
• Create new groups, or delete existing groups.
Shares
Shares are folders placed on the GigaDrive. Access to each
share can be monitored by an administrator.
• Create, delete and modify shares.
Users
• View the list of existing users, and modify individual user
data.
• Create or delete individual users.
N N o o t t e e : : We recommend that you browse the shares and
folders on the Instant GigaDrive to view the relationships
between them, and to view the GigaDrive's directory
structure.
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Managing Shares, Groups, and Users
By creating shares, groups, and users on the Instant GigaDrive, the
Administrator is able to allocate how much GigaDrive space is available to
each person working over the network.
Quick Terminology
• User A user can be thought of as a single account on the GigaDrive. A
user, which is basically a name with a password, is most typically created on
the GigaDrive to define a specific user's GigaDrive access rights.
• Group A group is a collection of users. Groups are created to more easily
manage users' access to shares. Each individual user can belong to many
groups.
• Share A share is a directory folder created on the Instant GigaDrive.
Access to a share is given to a group by an administrator. Each share can
only be accessed by a single group.
• Access Rights All shares are configured with specific access rights – either
Read Only or Read/Write.
Preconfigured Users, Groups, and Shares
On initial setup, the Instant GigaDrive already has the following shares,
groups and users installed. These pre-defined objects cannot be deleted, and
only limited modifications may be performed.
Users Admin
The Admin user is a member of the administrator group, and there-
fore has Read/Write access to all shares. By default, the admin user
has no password, but a password can be assigned by the GigaDrive
Administrator. Assigning a password is recommended. This user can
not be deleted.
Guest
The Guest user is a member of the everyone group, and may be
added to (and removed from) any other groups. By default, the guest
user has no password, and a password can not be assigned. This user
cannot be deleted.
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