The invention relates to an 
access control method of 
network storage equipment, belonging to a 
computer network storage 
system. The invention solves the problem that the prior 
access control method maintains and manages one centralized 
access control list, thereby forming the performance 
bottleneck and influencing the performance and the expandability of the storage 
system. In the invention, the access control method comprises the steps of object establishment and object operation. The 
network storage equipment stores 
data objects and 
directory objects needed by users, each of the data objectsand the 
directory objects comprises an attribute part and a data part, and each attribute part comprises an 
access control list. The invention uses each 
access control list as a security attribute ofeach data object to be stored together with the data, defines the inherited rules of each 
access control list and the priority of each access control item, improves the flexibility of 
data access control, positions the corresponding access control 
list while reading the data to be operated by users, realizes the distributed access control, greatly reduces the access control cost of a distributedstorage 
system, and improves the expandability of the system.