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6. Security Control
This chapter covers how to setting up the security control of the files, folders and shares stored in
NAS server. Managing Access Control List (ACL) file level security, file ownership and user quota are
also covered in this chapter. You can configure the following types of security control on the NAS
server:
1. Create, edit and delete user accounts in the local user database.
2. Create shares.
3. Configure Files, Folders and shares permission.
4. Configure local account, domain account and UNIX/Linux Hosts permission.
5. Maintain the ACL table.
6. Configure the local user and domain user quota limit.
6.1 Security Information
The Security Information screen is the statistic of the current security setting of the NAS server. It
provides administrator a summary of the security database and the status of the operation mode.
The Information page is divided into two sections. The Security Database section display the
number of shares, number of ACL nodes and number of user/group.
Total number of ACL node created. ACL tells NAS server which
access right each user has to a folder or an individual file.
The total account number of the Local User/Group, Domain
User/Group, Trust Domain User/ Group and Unix/Linux Host
Entry.
Total number of local user/group. A local user or group is an
account that can be granted permissions and rights from NAS
server.