Verbatim External Hard Drive NAS manual Connecting NAS Drive Using Ethernet

Connecting NAS Drive Using Ethernet

Installing the NAS drive using Ethernet requires that you have an available Ethernet port on a router or switch.

Before attempting to establish a connection to the network it would be useful first to review some background information about how the NAS drive handles data over the network. Basic to this understanding are the fundamental concepts of user accounts and shared folders.

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.

Pre-defined Name	Group	User Account	Folder (Share)
public			public
admin		admin	admin
guest-share	@guest-share	guest-share	guest-share

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