Netgear RN3138 Software Manual - Page 137

ReadyNAS OS 6.4 User and Group Accounts Users are the people to whom you grant access to your storage system. If your company uses Windows Active Directory, you can use that to manage ReadyNAS users. Otherwise, when you want to allow someone to access your ReadyNAS system, you create a user account for that person. The ReadyNAS storage system administrator sets up user accounts and decides which folders and LUNs each user is permitted to access. If your ReadyNAS storage system is used at home, you might create a user account for each member of the family, but allow only the parents to access financial data stored on your system. You might decide that all user accounts can access photos and music stored on the system. You can set the appropriate permissions for each user. The ReadyNAS system administrator can set up groups to make it easier to manage large numbers of users. For example, if your ReadyNAS storage system is being used in a business, you might decide that every employee should have a user account. However, you might decide that only users in the accounting department can access information in the accounting shared folder, but that all users can access data stored in the company benefits shared folder. You can create a group for each department and place all users in the appropriate group or groups. Home Folders Home folders allow each user to have a private folder matching his or her account name. Home folders are automatically created when a user account is created. Home folders are always available over SMB and AFP protocols and are available optionally over NFS and FTP protocols. You can control whether or not snapshots are enabled for home folders. You enable or disable snapshot protection for home folders through a switch for the default user (Accounts > Default User). If snapshot protections is enabled here, you can enable or disable it for individual home folders when viewing it in the Shares tab. User and Group Account Limitations You can create up to 8,192 user accounts and up to 8,192 group accounts on your ReadyNAS storage system. However, creating many accounts on your system can degrade its performance, so We recommend that you create and maintain only those accounts you need, preferably fewer than 250. When you add a user, a private home folder is created for that user. This private home folder is visible only to the user and the system administrator. User and Group Management Modes You can choose between two modes to manage user and group accounts on your ReadyNAS: Local Users mode and Active Directory mode. You configure either one or the other: • Local Users mode. This mode lets you manually manage user and group accounts on your ReadyNAS storage system using its local database. • Active Directory mode. This mode requires an Active Directory database. If you use Active Directory mode, you do not use your ReadyNAS system to manage your users and groups. Instead, you manage them with your Active Directory database and the changes are transferred to your ReadyNAS system every 12 hours. To configure Local Users mode: 1. Log in to the local admin page. 2. Select Accounts > Authentication. Users and Groups 137