Windows Home Server: managing users
Part 3 of GALLERY: Windows Home Server Beta 2
The server supports up to 10 user accounts plus a guest account. As each user is created the admin specifies the level of access to the server's shared folders: read and write, read only, or no access. The admin also has automatic Remote Access privileges to each user's machine. The guest account is disabled by default and also set for read-only access to shared folders, although this can be changed with the slightest wave of the admin's mighty hand (or more exactly albeit less impressively, a click of the mouse).
 Property inspection: the simplified admin wizards make it a snap to set each user's access levels to shared folders on the server |
 Share and share alike: Windows Home Server has five shared folders out of the box, while each user gets a personal folder. Admins can of course create more folders (as is their majestic right by divine decree) |
As you'd expect, admins can also determine which other user's folders a user has access to, along with creating new shared folders beyond the five defaults of Music, Photos, Software, Videos and Public. What's novel about this is that the work done at the interface level makes everything appear so easy that it's hard to imagine anyone not being able to carry out those basic tasks which customise the home server for their own needs.
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