Chapter 9. Managing Users
Because you are building a home server, you likely have a household full of people waiting to use it. Well, at the very least you have yourself. Every individual in your household should have his or her own user account in order to access shared folders, particularly the shared folder created just for him or her.
Even if you are the only user on the network, you should still create a user account. Certain home server functions, such as remote access to files or control of other computers on the network cannot be done with the administrator account and must, instead be performed with a user account.
Windows Home Server allows you to create up to ten user accounts, which can be used to customize access to server resources for each member of you household. Users accounts permissions are used to customize access to shared folders, so you can give each person a space just for his or her own use as well as access to public shared folders that everyone can access. You can even control which user accounts are allowed to access the server using remote access.
Adding a New User Account
As mentioned in Chapter 7 when you toured the Console, Windows Home Server allows you to create and manage user accounts without having to touch the server by using the Console's User Accounts tab, as shown in Figure 9.1.
To access the User Accounts tab, do the following:
Launch the ...
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