set, the white circle will turn green.
Add a user
Choose Manage users and follow the wizard to completion. You can:
Invite users: invite local and remote users to join your NAS and to create a Seagate Access account. Use
this option for users who require remote access to the NAS. You must enter an email address for a user
to create a Seagate Access account. The user receives the invitation via email with instructions on how
to complete the account.
See invites: review pending user invitations.
Create user: create a user for local access to the NAS. You can create a local user and add the Seagate
Access account later.
Consider the following when completing the fields in this step:
A login can have from 1 to 20 characters using letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores. Do not begin
or end with a hyphen or an underscore.
A password can have from 4 to 20 characters and is case-sensitive.
An email address is optional when creating a local user. It can be helpful for quota notifications and
password recovery.
To give the user administration privileges to the NAS, check the box next to Administrator.
Set group permissions: To add a user to a group, drag the group name from the No access column to the
Access column. To add the user to multiple groups, make all your selections before dragging them to the
Access column. The administrator can skip the group membership step if membership will be assigned
in the Groups settings.
Set share permissions: To give the user access to a share, drag the share to the Read access column or the
Read+write access column. To give access to multiple shares, make all your selections before dragging
them to one of the columns. If a share is mistakenly dragged to the Read access column or Read+write
access column, you can drag it back to the No access column. The administrator can skip this step if access
will be assigned in the Shares or Groups settings.
User: access to shares and rights
A user can access NAS shares that have been assigned to him by the administrator (see
accessing the shares for the first time, the user is prompted for the password created by the administrator
on the Users page (see
login and password, which is very helpful with Seagate MyNAS remote access. However, NAS OS
management rights are limited for standard users.
Access the Filebrowser app to upload, download, and share files via the Internet (see Filebrowser).
An administrator has access to all NAS OS management features, including the ability to revise a password
that has been changed by a user.
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