A work area corresponds to a physical partition in the drive with the denomination /home1 or /home2. When a new user is created, the system also creates its personal account that represents a folder structure that supports the user account.
Personal Accounts: Located in the MS Windows environment, it contains e-mail files and the user profile;
Group Sharing: Responsible for storing user group files
Administrative Sharing: Responsible for sharing user accounts and eliminated group sharings. These areas are only available for Administrators.
IPBrick has two Work Areas by default: Work Area 1 and Work Area 2. When you click on Work Areas you are given a list of all users and sharing groups classified by Work Area as well as information about the occupied space in the system of each individual Work Areas (Figure 3.18).