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User Guide LOOQS MeeBox Router
Managing users, groups, and shared folders
Why create user accounts, groups, or additional shared folders?
Benefits of multiple user accounts
There are two reasons to create different user accounts on your MeeBox: security and
privacy.
Multiple user accounts enhance security because they allow non-administrators to access
shares on your MeeBox without being able to access the admin interface. This prevents
users from making undesirable changes to the server configuration.
Multiple user accounts enhance privacy because each user can have their own private
folder that no other user can open (unless they know the user’s password). Also, having
different user accounts allows you to make a shared folder accessible by some users and
not by others.
Benefits of groups
Groups are a convenient way to grant or deny access to a specific shared folder to
several users at the same time. For example, your MeeBox has ten users—five adults and
five children. You want adults, but not children, to be able to access a shared folder. If
you did not create groups, you would have to add each adult to the access list for that
share, taking care not to add any of the children. By creating two groups in advance—
Adults and Children—and placing all the users in the appropriate group, you can simply
grant access to the Adults group.
Benefits of additional shared folders
Flexibility is the main reason you might want to have more than one shared folder. Each
shared folder has its own list of users who can access it. So, for example, you could have
one share that everyone in the family can access, and another share that only adult users
can access. You can also control whether a particular user or group has read-only access
or full access. With read-only access, users can open and copy files from the shared folder,
but they cannot add, change, or delete files in it.