Edit a Group
You can edit groups' information and access privileges to shared folders.
To edit group information:
- Select the group you want to edit.
- Click Edit and edit the group info.
- Click OK to finish.
To edit a group's access privileges to shared folders:
- Select the group you want to edit.
- Click Edit and Permissions.
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Tick or uncheck the following privileges to assign access privileges for the group:
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Read/Write: The group can access and make changes to the shared folder.
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Read only: The group can access the shared folder, but cannot make changes to it.
- No access: The group cannot access the shared folder.
- Click OK to finish.
Note:
When you encounter privilege conflicts, the privilege priority is as follows: No access > Read/Write > Read only.
To edit a group's usage quota:
- Select the group you want to edit.
- Click Edit and go to the Quota tab.
- For each volume/shared folder, check the box under Enable quota. Then enter a usage quota in the Quota field (e.g. 10 GB).
Note:
- Each group member inherits the specified group usage quota. The group usage quota is not shared between each group member (not applicable to EDS14 or DDSM).
- The maximum storage usage quota that can be entered for each group is approximately 4 TB (4095 GB).
- Only VDSM and models with the following package architectures support editing a group's usage quota through shared folder: Apollo Lake, Avoton, Braswell, Broadwell, Bromolow, Cedarview, and Grantley. To see which package architecture your model supports, please refer to this article.
- DDSM does not support this feature.
To edit a group's access privileges to applications:
- Select the group you want to edit.
- Click Edit and go to the Applications tab.
- For each service, you can choose one of the following options:
- Allow: The group can access the application.
- Deny: The group cannot access the application.
- Custom: Manage access privileges by IP address.
- Click OK to finish.
Note:
- When you encounter privilege conflicts, the privilege priority is as follows: Deny > Allow.
- Not all packages and services support By IP access privilege settings.
To edit the speed limit of the group:
You can enable a group speed limit for different services (e.g. File Station, FTP, etc) in order to restrict the amount of bandwidth consumed by group members who transfer files via each service. Group speed limits are shared by all group members.
- Select the group you want to edit.
- Click Edit and go to the Speed Limit tab.
- For each service, you can choose one of the following options.:
- None: No speed limit will be applied when group members use the service.
- Set up speed cap: A fixed, constant speed limit will be applied to group members. Specify the upload and download speed limits in the fields to the left.
- Customize limit range: Two different speed limits can be specified and applied to group members according to a schedule. Click the Customize button to modify speed limit settings and the schedule.
- Click OK to finish.
Speed Limit for Users Belonging to Multiple Groups
When a user belongs to multiple groups, his speed limit is decided based on the group with the highest available bandwidth at the time of transferring files. Because bandwidth is divided evenly among users currently transferring files, the available bandwidth changes based on how many users are currently consuming the group's shared bandwidth.
For example, one user "John" belongs to "Group 1" (speed limit 500KB/s; total five users) and "Group 2" (speed limit 400KB/s; total two users).
- If the users of Group 1 and Group 2 are all transferring files at the same time, then John's speed limit will become 200KB/s, and his consumption will count against the shared bandwidth quota of Group 2.
- When the other users of Group 1 have finished transferring files, then John's speed limit will immediately change to 500KB/s, and his consumption will count against the shared bandwidth quota of Group 1.