
NSA-2400 User’s Guide
47 Chapter 4 Sharing Screens
CHAPTER 4
Sharing Screens
This chapter introduces the Sharing screens of the NSA.
4.1 Sharing Introduction
Use the Sharing screens to:
• Create and manage user accounts. Users are people who have access rights to the NSA
and can store files there for later retrieval.
• Create and manage groups. A group is a set of users.
• Create and manage shares. A share is a set of users/groups access permissions mapped to
a specific folder on a volume. It is equivalent to the Windows concept of a shared folder,
but is independent of the folder. You can map a share to a network drive for easy and
familiar file transfer for Windows users.
4.2 Sharing Overview
A Local user or group is a one created on the NSA when the NSA is in Workgroup mode.
Domain users and groups are created on a centralized Windows-based domain controller. This
list is used by the NSA when authenticating users and/or groups that seek access to a share.
Note: More restrictive access rights override less restrictive ones. For example, if a
user belong to different groups with different access rights to the same share,
then the more restrictive access right would apply. That is deny access
overrides read access, overrides read-write access. For example, user Joe
belongs to the Sales group. He has read access to the MIS share. The Sales
group are denied access to this MIS share. Therefore, Joe is also denied
access to the MIS share.
4.2.1 In Limbo and In Conflict
If a user or group is deleted in the domain controller, (but not on the NSA) then it appears as in
limbo on the NSA.
A conflict users is a local user that has the same user name as that of a user on a domain
controller
. For example, if you first create local users and groups on the NSA (in Workgroup
mode) and later you change to domain mode where you create (or there are already) identical
users and groups, then they appear as in conflict on the NSA.
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