Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Based on DSM 4.1
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Chapter 7: Set Up File Sharing
Create and Edit Users
Follow the steps below to create a user account. The user can login to edit his/her account info after the user
account has been established. You can also choose to set an account expiration date or disallow the user to
change account password.
To create a user account:
1
Click
Create
to open the
User Creation Wizard
.
2
Enter the user name and other information, and click
Next
.
3
In the
Join Group
section, tick the checkboxes to select the user group for the user, and click
Next
. By default,
the user is categorized under the
users
group.
Note:
For more information about groups, see "Create and Edit Groups" on Page 59.
4
In the
Assign Privileges – shared folder
section, do the following:
a
Assign the following shared folder privileges for the user:
Read/Write
: The user can access and make changes to the files and subfolders in the shared folder.
Read only
: The user can access the files and subfolders in the shared folder, but cannot make changes
to them.
No access
: The user cannot access the files and subfolders in the shared folder.
b
See
Privilege preview
to see the user’s privilege that is decided based on the privileges setting of the user
and the groups joined by the user.
c
See
Group privileges
for the shared folder privileges of the group the user belongs to.
Note:
When you encounter privilege conflicts, the privilege priority is as follows:
No access
>
Read/Write
>
Read
only
.
For more information about editing a group's access privileges to shared folders, see "Allow Users or Groups to
Access Shared Folders" on Page 62.
5
In the
User quota setting
section, do the following if you want to set the maximum storage quota for the user.
a
Tick
Enable quota
and enter a value under the
Quota
column.
b
Click
Next
.
6
In the
Assign Privileges – applications
section, assign the application privileges for this user, and click
Next
.
7
Tick the checkboxes under or next to
Enable speed limit
to apply file transfer speed limit.
8
Click
Apply
to finish.
To create a user account by importing users list:
1
Create a text file which contains the following tab-delimited information in each line:
Username
Password
Description
Quota (MB) in volume 1
Quota (MB) in volume 2 (and so on)
Note:
All fields are optional except
Username
.
An example of the text file is shown as follows:
eddy
1234
father
80000
rosy
5678
mother
80000
chaddy
8901
brother
20000
eric
2345
cousin
20000
