User guide

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.

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.

Pre-deﬁned Name Group User Account Folder (Share)

public public

admin admin admin

guest-share @guest-share guest-share guest-share