Basic User Concepts. Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2, RND4475 - ReadyNAS NV+ NAS Server, Home RAIDiator 5.3, ReadyNAS Duo v2

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Basic User Concepts

Users are the people to whom you grant access to your storage system. When you want to allow someone to access your ReadyNAS system, you create a user account for that person.

The ReadyNAS storage system administrator sets up user accounts and decides which shares each user is permitted to access.

If your ReadyNAS storage system is being used at home, you might decide that each member of the family should have a user account, but that only the parents can access financial data stored on your system. You might decide that all accounts can access photos and music stored on the system. You can set the appropriate permissions for each user.

User Accounts

Use Dashboard to create, manage, and delete user accounts on your ReadyNAS storage system.

Create User Accounts

You can create up to 32,000 user accounts on your ReadyNAS storage system. However, creating a large number of accounts on your system can degrade its performance, so

NETGEAR recommends creating and maintaining only those accounts you need, preferably fewer than 100.

When you create a new user, a private home share is created for that user. This private home share is visible only to the that user and the system administrator.

Users Accounts

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To create a user account:

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Select Configure > Users.

The Users screen displays.

2.

Click the New User icon.

3.

The New User dialog box displays.

4.

Enter the following information for the new user:

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Name. Required. User names can have a maximum of 31 characters in most non-Asian languages. If you use Asian language characters, the limit is significantly lower. You can use most alpha, numeric, and punctuation characters for a user name.

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Email Address. Optional.

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Password. Required. Enter a password. Each user password can have a maximum of 255 characters.

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Confirm Password. Required. Re-enter the user password.

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Click the Add User button.

A new user account is created.

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Edit User Accounts

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Use Dashboard to edit a user’s name, email address, or password.

To edit a user account:

1.

Select Configure > Users.

The Users screen displays.

If your system has only a few users, they all display on the screen.

If your system has many users, use the search field to find the user account you want to edit.

2.

In the left pane, highlight the user account that you want to edit.

The right pane displays the settings for that account.

3.

Edit the settings for the user as needed.

4.

Click the Apply button.

Your changes are saved.

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Delete User Accounts

Use Dashboard to delete user accounts. Note that files on your ReadyNAS system that are owned by the deleted user might become inaccessible. When you delete a user, your

ReadyNAS system deletes that user’s private home share and its contents.

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To delete a user:

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Select Configure > Users.

The Users screen displays.

If your system has only a few users, they all display on the screen.

If your system has many users, use the search field to find the user account you want to edit.

2.

In the left pane, highlight the user account that you want to delete.

The right pane displays the settings for that account.

3.

Click the Delete icon.

A dialog box displays prompting you to confirm the delete command.

4.

Click the Yes button.

The user is deleted.

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System Settings

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This chapter describes how to manage your ReadyNAS storage system’s configuration, network settings, add-ons, and USB storage devices. It contains the following sections:

• System Configuration

• Network Settings

• Add-Ons

• USB Storage Devices

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