Chapter 16 Groups

Click the Add Group button in the Groups screen to open the following screen. Click the Edit Group button in the screen shown previously to edit an existing group.

Figure 196 Sharing > Groups > Add or Edit a Group

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 104 Sharing > Groups > Add or Edit a Group

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Group Name

Type a name from 1 to 32 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for

 

example) ASCII characters. See Section 16.3.2 on page 309 for more details on

 

group names.

 

 

Group Membership

Use this field to assign group membership to individual users.

 

 

Available User(s)

This field lists the user accounts created on the NSA that are not members of the

 

current group.

 

 

Group Membership

This field lists the user accounts added to the group.

 

 

Add Selected User(s)

Select a user account from the Available Users list and click this to add the

 

account to the group.

 

 

Remove Selected

Select a user account from the Group Membership list and click this to remove

User(s)

the account from the group.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

 

 

16.3.2 Group Names

Enter a group name from 1 to 32 characters. The first character must be alphabetical (case insensitive, [A-Z a-z]); numeric characters are not allowed as the first character.

The group name can only contain the following characters:

•Alphanumeric A-z 0-9. Unicode usernames are supported with CIFS logins, but not FTP or web configurator logins.

•Spaces

•_ [underscores]

•. [periods]

•- [dashes]

Other limitations on group names are:

• All leading and trailing spaces are removed automatically.

 

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