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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-321 => Topic started by: ttwau on March 14, 2010, 07:16:39 PM
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How do i give multiple users access to the same share?
I want each user to have control of his/her own folder, and then also have some folders shared by different combinations. A user can only belong to one group, so group does not appear to be an option.
I had it in the past that multiple users could use a share, and the users were seperated by a "/" in the list. Somehow i messed it up, and can not recreate them that way. If using single user entries, the list overflow, and the second page is seldom selectable.
Any advice welcome.
Tinus.
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I have not tested this -- other then setting it up -- but it looks like you can create a rule for a user as well as a group that user belongs to.
I set up a test group "Test"
and a test user "testing"
I assigned testing to the test group
I then added a permission to the testing user to their own folder -- and public access to a Media folder to the test group --
like I said I haven't tested it but I would think this would serve your purpose.
(http://thumbnails16.imagebam.com/7206/dee56e72052328.gif) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/dee56e72052328)
you could have multiple rules for each group so if you wanted to give all users access to one folder and two of those users access to a different folder you could create two groups and assign two rules to the second group
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GideonOmega, thank you for the reply.
Let me try and explain my problem a bit further.
With a previous version of the firmware, i had single shares with multiple users (separated by commas) in a list of users that could use that share. After updating the firmware to 1.03, and recreating my security/access rules, multiple users can no longer be specified on a single share. You can specify a group or a single user.
As a user can only belong to one group, the use of groups are pretty useless, unless you consider all users equal on your network. I've got kids, so i do not want that to be the case.
How can i specify multiple users or groups with access to a single share? If the SMB access list is more than what can be displayed on a single screen, there is no way to scroll down and look at the latest rules created.
I like the DNS321, but configuring its access rules is a bit of a nightmare.