SnapGear 2.0.1 user manual Network Shares, Create a new user account, Web Cache

Network Shares

Typically, you will find the CyberGuard SG appliance’s web cache most useful when utilizing a Network Share for additional storage space. The CyberGuard SG appliance is not equipped with a hard disk of its own, so is quite limited in terms of the amount of Internet objects it can cache.

A network share is a shared folder or drive on a local Windows PC, or a PC running another operating system capable of SMB sharing (such as a Linux PC running the SAMBA service).

Refer to your operating system’s documentation for details on creating a network share. What follows are some basic instructions for creating a network share under Windows XP.

Create a new user account

Note

We recommend that you create a special user account to be used by the CyberGuard SG appliance for reading and writing to the network share. If you have an existing account or wish to may the network share readable and writeable by everyone, you may skip the next step.

To create an account, click Start ->Control Panel ->User Accounts ->Create a new account. Type a name for the new account, e.g. sguser, and click Next. Typically it will be sufficient to grant this account Limited privileges. Click Create Account to create it. Select the account you have just create under Pick an account to change. Select Create a password. Enter and confirm a password for this account, as well as a password hint if desired.

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