We're delighted that you have chosen Jungle Disk Workgroup as your backup and online storage provider. This article explains the basic steps in setting up your Workgroup account, online disks, and users (which we call sub-accounts).

 

Step 1: Setting up the Master Account

The first step is to set up your master account. The master account is like an administrator as it allows you to select a domain, create online disks, new sub-accounts, and configure access/permissions. After logging in to your Jungle Disk account, you will see "Master Account Setup" on the left hand side of the page.

After clicking that link, you will see that this screen has one part that can be filled out, the domain. The domain is what your users will enter into their Jungle Disk Workgroup software along with their sub-account name and password. The domain is also used when accessing data via the web interface (for example http://mydomain.myjungledisk.com). You can choose anything you wish for a domain as long as it is not already taken. We suggest choosing something easy to remember and representative of you.

 

Step 2: Creating Sub-accounts

Now that you have setup a master account you need to create your sub-accounts. On the left hand side of the window click on "Sub-Account Management". You will see a heading that reads "Create a New Sub-Account". Under this heading you can choose a sub-account name, password, tags (these are used if you want to sort your users in a report later - such as finance, CEO, etc and are purely for informational purposes). You will also notice there is a check box beside "Private Online Disk". If checked, this will create a new online disk (like described above) and automatically give access for only this sub-account user to that online disk.

The online disk name defaults to the name of the sub-account user. You can select some options here - storage provider, location, security. If the sub-account does not need their own disk, un-check this box. When you've filled out the fields click on the "Create New Sub-Account" button. The page will then reload and you will see the sub-account name listed in the window. You can click on the sub-account name to make changes, such as changing the password.

 

Step 3: Creating Online Disks

After you have set up your sub-accounts, you may want to create  additional online disks for your sub-accounts (these are your users) to access, but this is completely optional.

For example, if you have two groups who need to access different data you can set up a disk for each. On the left hand side of the window you will see "Online Disk Management". After clicking that link, you will then see a section with the heading "Create New Online Disk". Choose a name that signifies that the disk is for, such as Finance or Documents. Beneath that field you can choose your storage provider from a drop down list (Amazon or Rackspace).

The next is the location, followed by reporting user. The reporting user is who that disk will show up under if you run reports later.

When creating an online disk, you also have the option to enable/disable specific features for that online disk.  This can be done by checking/un-checking the associated feature under the Enabled Features section.

Lastly, select your desired security option.  If you choose high security, you are given the option to enter a password that will be used to encrypt your data. Any user wanting to access this disk must know the password and will be required to enter it during the setup of the Jungle Disk Workgroup application. 

 

Step 4: Configuring Online Disk Access

The next step is to configure access to online disks for the sub-accounts that you've created. If you created a private online disk for your sub-account during the sub-account creation process and do not plan to allocated access to any other online disks, you can ignore the steps here.

Click on "Sub-Account Management" on the left hand side of the window. This will display a page listing your sub-accounts (the same page where we created sub-accounts above). Click on a sub-account name listed in orange. This loads the settings page we saw earlier. The lower half of the window has a heading that reads "Online Disk Access". You will notice some drop-downs here. To enable access to an online disk for the selected sub-account, choose the disk name from the drop down under Online Disk. Next, select the type of access this sub-account should have for that disk. You can choose read or read/write. Read access will allow that sub-account to open files in the online disk but they will be unable to make changes or delete files in the online disk. Click the "Add" button to apply the access so the sub-account can access the disk. You can also click the "Remove" button to delete access to that disk in the future.