User Guide

Chapter 5 Managing Clients and Users 77
Managing Users and Groups
Depending on how you first set up your SAN, you can manage users and groups using
either Xsan Admin or Mac OS X Server’s Workgroup Manager.
Managing Users and Groups with Xsan Admin
When you first set up your SAN controllers, you can use Xsan Admin to manage your
SAN user and group accounts. An Open Directory master is created on your primary
metadata controller, with replicas on your standby controllers. You can then use Xsan
Admin to create and remove user and group accounts.
Managing Users and Groups with Workgroup Manager
If you choose not to manage accounts using Xsan Admin (for example, if you have an
existing directory of user and group accounts), use the appropriate directory
management tool to add or delete accounts. For example, if you have an existing Open
Directory server, you can use Workgroup Manager in Mac OS X Server to manage user
and group accounts and Directory Utility to bind SAN computers to that directory. See
the Mac OS X Server documentation suite for details.