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Users

15.1 Overview

This chapter introduces the Users screens of the NSA. Use the Users screens to create and manage administrator and user accounts.

Administrators can:

Configure and manage the NSA.

Create volumes, shares, and user accounts.

Assign individual users specific access rights for specific shares.

Users are people who have access rights to the NSA and can store files there for later retrieval. A user can:

Manage shares that he owns.

Change his own password.

Access the contents of other shares to which he is given access rights.

15.2What You Can Do

Use the main Users screen (Section 15.3 on page 307) to display a list of user accounts created on the NSA.

Use the Add User screen (Section 15.3.2 on page 309) to create new user accounts.

Use the Edit User screen (Section 15.3.2 on page 309) to edit the properties of an existing account.

Use the User Info screen (Section 15.4 on page 312) to display the amount of volume space used by a selected account and the account’s membership in any groups.

15.3The Users Screen

Click Sharing > Users to display the screen shown next.

 

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