Chapter 4 Web Admin interface
LinkStation User Manual
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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] is selected from [Network] -
[Workgroup/Domain] for the [For Workgroup Authentication], 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] field 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.
Local Users
>
New User
To display,
click [Cre-
ate a user].
Local Users
Username
Usernames may contain up to 20 bytes(UTF-8). Alphanumeric characters,
hyphens, underscores, and spaces may be used.
Do not use multi-byte characters. Do not use a symbol as the first character of
the Username.
Description
Descriptions may contain up to 75 bytes(UTF-8). Alphanumeric characters, multi-
byte characters, hyphens, underscores, and spaces may be used.
Do not use a space as the first 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
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 bytes(UTF-8). Alphanumeric character, hyphen,
and underscore may be used. Do not use a hyphen as the first 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.
Confirm Pass-
word
Enter the password again for confirmation.
Users/Groups
The following options can be set from the [Users/Groups] screen.
