Acer Altos easyStore M2 User Manual - Page 158

136 4 Managing the storage system Removing a group In local authentication mode, removing a group does not remove the users that are members of that group; it simply means that the group will no longer appear in the Groups list on the Groups page. The users remain listed on the Users & Computers page. (In Active Directory authentication mode, you cannot remove a group on the storage system. That can be done only on the Active Directory server.) However, removing a group can affect access to shared folders. When you remove a group, the members of that group will no longer have access to any shared folders that the group was authorized to access unless they were granted individual access as well. For example, the Executives group might include Alice, Bob, and Carlos, and that group might have read/write access to the Budget shared folder. If you remove the Executives group, Alice, Bob, and Carlos remain users, but they will no longer have any access to that shared folder. On the other hand, if the Executives group had read/write access to the Budget shared folder, but Alice had read-only access, when you remove the group, Bob and Carlos will no longer have access to the Budget shared folder (since their access rights were determined by their group membership), but Alice will continue to have read-only access, since that access right was granted to her on a user level. To remove a group: 1 In the navigation bar, click Users. 2 In the left pane, click Groups. 3 In the Groups list, select the group that you want to remove. 4 Click Remove. Note: If the storage system uses Active Directory authentication mode, this button displays dimmed. 5 Click OK. The group no longer displays in the Groups list.