Operation Manual

Chapter 3 Web Administration Tool
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Name
Descriptions
Local Users
Local Users Displays Username, User ID, Description, and Primary Group.
To create a new user, click [Create User].
To edit the user, select the user name and click [Edit User]. To delete the user,
select the user and click [Delete].
If [Delegate Authority to External SMB Server][Network] - [Workgroup/Domain]
is selected from [Network] - [Workgroup/Domain] for the authentication
settings, a user who are registered at the LinkStation can be converted to an
authorized user of the external SMB server by clicking [The selected user(s) will
be converted to external users].
Enter a letter in the [Find] eld to list users that begin with that letter.
The users [admin] and [guest] are built-in to the LinkStation. They cannot be
deleted.
If the LinkStation is a domain member, [Domain Users] will also be available. K
Local Users
>
New User
To display,
click [Cre-
ate a user].
Local Users
Username Usernames may contain up to 20 alphanumeric characters, two-byte characters,
hyphens, and underscores. Don’t use a hyphen or underscore as the rst
character of the name.
Description Descriptions may contain up to 50 alphanumeric characters or 25 two-byte
characters. Letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores and spaces may be used.
Do not use a space as the rst character in a description.
New users automatically belong to the [hdusers] group. You can change the
group the user belongs to in Group Settings.
Password
(within 20
characters)
Enter the user’s password. This should be the same password that the user uses
to log in to his computer.
Passwords may contain up to 20 alphanumeric characters. One-byte
alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores are supported. Don’t use a
hyphen as the rst character of a password.
If the user is using Mac OS, passwords must be limited to 9 or fewer characters.
Otherwise, the user will not be able to access shared folders on the LinkStation.
Conrm Pass-
word
Enter the password again for conrmation.
Users/Groups
The following options can be set from the Users/Groups screen.