LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID
(Firmware version 1.4)
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Managing Your Ethernet Disk RAID
5.4.4.3. Removing a Group
In local authentication mode, removing a group does
not remove the users that are members of that group; it
simply means that the group no longer displays in the
Groups list on the Groups page. The users remain listed
on the Users & Computers page. (In Active Directory
authentication mode, you cannot remove a group on the
storage system. That can be done only on the Active Di-
rectory server.)
However, removing a group can affect access to
shared folders. When you remove a group, the members
of that group no longer has access to any shared folders
that the group was authorized to access unless they were
granted individual access as well.
For example, the Executives group might include
Alice, Bob, and Carlos, and that group might have read/
write access to the Budget shared folder. If you remove
the Executives group, Alice, Bob, and Carlos remain us-
ers, but they no longer have access to that shared folder.
On the other hand, if the Executives group had
read/write access to the Budget shared folder, but Alice
had read-only access, when you remove the group, Bob
and Carlos no longer have access to the Budget shared
folder (since their access rights were determined by their
group membership), but Alice continues to have read-
only access, since that access right was granted to her on
a user level.
To remove a group:
In the navigation bar, click
Users
.
In the left pane, click
Groups
.
In the
Groups
list, select the group that you want to
remove.
Click
Remove
.
NOTe:
If the storage system uses Active Directory
authentication mode, this button displays dimmed.
When prompted to confirm the removal, click
OK
.
The group no longer appears in the
Groups
list.
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TeChNICAl NOTe:
Removing a group does
not remove the users that are members of that
group; it simply means that the group will no longer
appear in the Groups list on the Groups page. The
users remain listed on the Users & Computers page.
However, removing a group can affect access to
shared folders. When you remove a group, the
members of that group will no longer have access
to any shared folders that the group was autho-
rized to access unless they were granted individ-
ual access as well.
