Iomega Network Device manual Users and Groups, Manage Local Users

5 Users and Groups

From this page, you can create, edit, and delete local users and groups on the DataSafe NAS. You can also change the members of each group. If the DataSafe NAS is a member of a domain, you will not want to create any users on the DataSafe NAS itself. The primary purpose of this page is to add one or more domain members to the local administrators group.

You may also want to use domain user and group accounts to control access to resources on the DataSafe NAS. You may also want to use domain management tools to manage domain users and domain groups.

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This chapter contains the following main sections:

n“Manage Local Users” on page 93

n“Manage Local Groups” on page 99

Manage Local Users

A local user or group account is an account that exists on the DataSafe NAS itself and can be granted permissions from your computer. The DataSafe NAS can also be configured to grant access to domain users and groups. Domain users and groups are those that exist in a Microsoft Windows NT 4 or Microsoft Active Directory domain. You can add local users, domain users, and domain groups to local groups. However, you cannot add local users and groups to domain groups.

Users and groups are important in Microsoft Windows Powered security because you can assign permissions to limit the ability of users and groups to perform

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