Planet NAS-5400, User Manual

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clients on the NAS server, please limit the length of passwords to 8 characters or less.
Default local accounts
There are two preset accounts on the server: root and guest.
1. root : This is the default account for the system administrator and belongs to both the admins
and users group. As a first step in the server setup, please setup a password for this account.
2. guest : This open account belongs to the guests group and has no password and quota
restriction by default. Its purpose is to give access to all users on the LAN, so that they may
access the NAS server
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s guest folders, such as public n . For the unauthorized Windows 98
clients, the system will automatically connect them to server with the account guest . For other
Windows NT/2000/XP, and Mac clients, users can enter guest as the user name (no password
is needed) to connect to the server..
However, due to security reasons, the system administrator might not want all unauthorized
users, e.g. users without an account on the NAS server or other account servers on the same
LAN, to access the shared folders of the NAS server. By adding a password to the guest account,
unrestricted access is disabled.
Note: Account server, e.g. a Windows domain controller on an NT domain, Windows 2000 Active
Directory Service or a NIS server on a UNIX domain.
Adding user accounts