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Chapter
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5 . Specify which users should be able to access this shared folder or USB disk,
and then click OK :
To do this Do this
Allow selected users to
access
to the shared
folder
or USB disk
Prevent selected users
from
accessing the
shared
folder or USB
disk
In the Unauthorized users list, select the user(s) who
should
be able to access the shared resource and then
click
Add (Read-Only) or Add (Read/Write) .
a
Users with read-only access can only view the files in the
shared
resource; users with read/write access can view,
add,
modify, and delete folders and files in the shared
resource.
In the Authorized users list, select the user(s) who should
not
be able to access the shared resource and then click
Remove .
a
a. To select multiple, contiguous users, hold down the Shift key and select the first user,
then select the last user. All users between the first and last selected
user are selected.
To select multiple, non-contiguous users, hold down the Ctrl key as you select each
user.
The selected users move from one list to the o t her .
Notes:
l To change the access level for a user , select the user in t he Authorized
users
list and click Remove . Then select that user in t he Unauthorized
users
list and click either Add (Read-Only) or Add (Read/Wr i te) ,
depending on the access level you now want the user to have.
l If you created groups (as described in “Adding a group”), you can perform
this step with groups as well.
This page shows all groups and all users. For example, if you created a
group
named Group1 , and added User2 and User3 to tha t group, the
Unauthorized groups list includes Group1, and the Unauthorized users
list includes User2 and User3. If you select Group1 and click
Add (Read-Only) , Group1 moves to the Authorized groups list, but
User2
and User3 do not move to the Authorized users list. This allows
you
to specify unique access rights for those users. For example, you
could
select User3 and click Add (Read/Write) . This would mean that
everyone
in Group1 would have read-only access to the shared f older
excep
t User3, who would have read/write access to it.
6 . To assign users of a dif f erent type , repeat this procedure, selecting the other
user type in step 4.