Two Kinds of Groups

The c-treeACE Server maintains a guest group, to which User IDs are associated if they are not assigned to any Administrator-defined Group ID. This means every User ID is associated with at least one group (i.e., the GUEST Group or a Group ID).

The Administrator can create any number of Groups each of which has a Group ID, a text description (for display), a memory allocation specification, and a list of User IDs associated with the Group ID. As noted, the Administrator can associate a given User ID with as many as 128 Group IDs. A GUEST User cannot be associated with any Group IDs; instead, the c-treeACE Server automatically assigns a GUEST User to the GUEST Group.

Group IDs can be up to 31 characters long. Characters can be letters, numbers, or punctuation marks. User IDs are not case sensitive (i.e., upper and lower case characters are treated as the same).