2011年1月28日 星期五

User and folder control

In order to enable the members of the home network can store or access the files, we need to register users and setup folders. Adding user is very easy under N1T1.
[User account] -> [User] -> [Create User]

Adding folders is very easy as well
[User account] -> [Folder] -> [Add Folder]
We can decide the folder name we want, and the protocol we want to support.
It is better to check all the protocol options to let you easier access the folder from Windows My Network Places or FTP. AFP is for MAC, check it if you have a MAC machine.

The add folder function here is only for adding the first order folder under the root directory. If you want to create a folder inside one of these folders, you should do this under [File Viewer] at the top-right corner of the page or by FTP, My Network Places. You should set up the authority for accessing these folders as well right here.

Setting up user account in N1T1 is very simple. However, I'm not sure is it very necessary to setup another account than admin. After login by new created user account, a huge cut off of options you have. As a normal user, what you can do now lefts only [File Backup Service] -> [DVD] , and [File Viewer]. As a normal user, you lost all the management function, but this is easy to understand, because management should only been done by administrator. But it is confusing that why the authority to do USB backup has been taken away from [File Backup Service] as well? Torrent download and DLNA folder setting has also been removed from normal user options. I guess N1T1 is targeting on a very limited members of group or small family.

PROS: A very intuitional menu control for adding user and folder creation.
CONS: User control is not meaningful, normal user only has a extremely limited function to access.

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