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
[Create a user].
Username
Usernames may contain up to 20 bytes(UTF-8).
• Alphanumeric characters, -(hyphen), _(underscore), .(dot), !, #, &, @, $, *,
^, % may be used.
• Do not use multi-byte characters.
• Do not use a symbol as the first character of the Username.
User Id
If a user ID is left blank, a user ID will be automatically assigned. When
using the Quota feature, use numbers between 1000 and 1999 to set a
group ID manually. Make sure that a user ID does not duplicate to other
users.
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 symbol and space as the first character.
• New users automatically belong to the [hdusers] group. You can
change the group the user belongs to in Group Settings.
Users/Groups
The following options can be set from the [Users/Groups] screen.