- Log into Disk Station Manager using your Administrators credentials
- From the desktop of DSM select Control Panel – Users & Groups
- In the Users & Groups panel select Create to open the User Creation Wizard
- The wizard will help you with the creation of a new user account
- In Name field enter the name of the user you will be creating
Note: When we create user accounts on our Synology NAS. If the user is a Windows user, by making the user name and the password match the credentials they use to log into Windows. The prompt for network credentials will not appear.
- While the Description field is non-mandatory, it can be useful to enter something meaningful like Standard User, or System Admin. As it will be easier to identify groups of users when they are presented in a list.
- Email is another non-mandatory field. However, if you enable notifications this field will be used to communicate to new users that their account is ready, or they need to change their password.
- For Password you will need to create a password that conforms to the password strength rules you set in Advanced.
- Leave the tick boxes to both ‘Send a notification to the newly created user‘ and ‘Disallow user to change account password‘ un-ticked.
- In Join groups all users will be included in the Users group.
Note: If you remember in the previous video, when we created Groups for our NAS, we edited the Users groups. This was so that whenever we create a new user account, by default everyone would have specific access rights to certain network shares.
- Using the check boxes tick any groups you want your new user to be part of.
- After selecting Next, we are shown a list that summarises the access permissions our new user will have access to.
Note: As we use Groups to set access permissions to our network shares. There is no need to change any permissions in the Assign Share Folder Permissions panel.
- When we choose Next, we are shown the Assign User Quota panel.
Note: While it can be useful to limit how much data each individual can stored in a network share. For home users this probably is not necessary. So because you can amend this setting if needed. For now we recommend you leave this option unchanged.
- The next option is Assign Application Permissions, which we will also leave unchanged.
- Set User Speed Limits we will also leave unchanged.
- By selecting Next, we are shown the summary panel.
- If happy with the settings for this User account select Done.
- Select the Windows button and search for Terminal
- Open the Terminal application
- At the command prompt type:
net use P: \\the ip address of your nas\Public /persistent:n
- When you press enter you will be prompted to enter a user name and password.
- Type a user name and password from one of the accounts you created.
- Now open File Manager, you find a mapped drive called P:Public
- This confirmed that your user account, permissions and the network shares on your NAS are working
- From the Desktop of macOS locate and select Go – Connect to Server
- When the Connect to Server window opens type the following:
smb://the ip address of your nas/Public
- When prompted enter the user name and password for one of the accounts you created on your NAS.
- Click Connect.
- Open Finder.
- Confirm that you can access your Public folder.
- Dismount your Public folder by clicking on the eject button. You will find a small eject button next to your network share in the sidebar of Finder.
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