This article defines the list of reserved user and share names on a My Cloud.*END
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The My Cloud devices offer an administrator the ability to create users and shares on the device. There are a few names for users and shares that are reserved by the device's operating system.
 | The name reservations may vary between the My Cloud models. If a name for a share or user is reserved, an error similar to Fig.1 will display. |
Please see the lists below:
The following table lists the Reserved Usernames. |
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| root | daemon |
| bin | sys |
| sync | games |
| man | lp |
| news | |
| uucp | proxp |
| backup | list |
| irc | gnats |
| nobody | libuuid |
| sshd | ntp |
| guest | |
The following table lists the reserved share names. |
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| public | shares |
| backup | P2P |
| CON | PRN |
| AUX | NUL |
| COMn — (n = 1 through 9) | LPTn — (n = 1 through 9) |
