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Managing Shares, Groups, and Users
This section has additional information to assist the Disk Server Administrator in
managing and controlling access to the Disk Server.
Terminology
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A Share is a folder on the Disk Server which can be accessed by client PCs on
the LAN.
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Access rights (Read-only or Read-Write) are granted to a Group (group of us-
ers), rather than to individual users.
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Each Share can only be accessed by a single Group .
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A Group can have access to many Shares .
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Each individual User can belong to many Groups .
Special Shares, Users and Groups
When delivered, the Disk Server will have the following shares, groups and users.
These pre-defined objects cannot be deleted, and only limited modifications may be
performed.
Shares & Folders
HDD1
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This is the root folder. Backing up this share backs up all
data on the drive.
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The administrator group ALWAYS has Read/Write access
to this share.
public share
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By default, the everyone group has Read/Write access to
this folder. This can not be changed, so ALL users always
have Read/Write access to the
public share.
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This share can not be deleted.
spool folder
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System folder, holding print jobs waiting to be printed.
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This folder can be accessed via the Browse menu option.
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Deleting a file in this folder will cancel the corresponding
print job.