NETGEAR manual ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide

2.Click the Add User tab to add a new user. You can add up to five users at a time. For each user, add the following information:

•User name,

•E-mail address

•User ID

•Select a group from the Group pull-down menu.

•Password

•Disk quota.

3.Click Apply to save your settings.

Only the user name and password fields are required; however, you should specify a user e-mail address if you intend to set up disk quotas. Without an e-mail address, the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit. If you do not wish to assign a disk quota, enter 0.

If you wish to add a large number of users, select Import user list from the pull-down menu.

Figure 3-8

Here, you can upload a CSV (Comma Separated Value) formatted file containing the user account information. The format of the file is:

name1,password1,group1,email1,uid1,quota1

name2,password2,group2,email2,uid2,quota2

name3,password3,group3,email3,uid3,quota3

:

Please note the following:

•Spaces around commas are ignored.

•The name and password fields are required.

•If a listed group account does not exist, it is automatically created.

•Group and quota are set to the defaults if not specified.

•E-mail notification is not sent to the user if the field is omitted or left blank.

•UID is automatically generated if not specified.

3-8 Managing User Access

v1.3, November 2008