Yes, there should be a way around that problem. Go into the preferences for the drive, (Command+I), and move to the Sharing permissions. Enable a new permission set for Everyone, if it does not already exist. Then, ensure that the drive is marked as “Shared”, and it should work.
> On 19 Jul 2020, at 19:54, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > Okay thanks I’ll look at that in a moment. > Another problem has popped up along similar lines, it concerns NTFS drives I > have added to the server machine which I wish to access via another computer > on the network. > I have a number of Paragon NTFS For Mac licenses here and I installed one of > those on the Server machine, so far so good and I can read/write to the NTFS > drives I added to the server however I cannot access them via another > computer on the Network. > Is there any way around this or am I going to have to reformat the NTFS > drives to HFS. > > >> On 18 Jul 2020, at 1:18 am, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by more practical. You. Have a couple of options >> realistically speaking. First, you could addmore drives to your machine and >> point your server to custom folders. Rumpus is incredibly powerful in that >> regard. You do it like this: >> • Prepare your drive so that it's in a format that your Mac would recognise >> and allow read/write access. Note that by default, MacOS cannot write to an >> NTFS volume, although it can read from them. >> • Plug in your drive and ensure it's active. >> • Set up a folder set for custom access to. That drive within Rumpus. >> • Allocate your read/write permissions for the folder. Note that the >> permissions can be overridden on a per-user basis if required. >> • Point your custom folder set to /Volumes/Drive/Folder/ and that's it. >> >> So, define "More Practical", please. Feel free to take this off list if you >> require detailed configuration help. >> >> >> On 16/07/2020, 14:31, "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> Up until recently I was quite content to use the second drive on my Mac >> mini Server machine - which runs the Rumps FTP server - for data storage but >> that was then >> The amount of data I need to store online has increased 5 fold so I’m left >> wondering about the most efficient way of handling this. >> At the moment I’m using a collection of Seagate Expansion 5TB drives >> plugged into spare USB ports, so far so good but I wonder whether there’s a >> more practical way of doing this? >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been scanned >> by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should not, however, be >> viewed as a substitution for your own security strategy. 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