I have an action that will do that, or at least I had an action that would do 
that. Yee for automator if the fix the compatability issues with lion.

I hear that it won't work but I'll give it a try. There wa ssomeone that did 
this but I really dunno how they did it.
On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:

> You can try a sim-link to the file, but I'm not sure if that will work or 
> not, since the ftp folder usually doesn't follow sim-links.  However, if you 
> want to try it, you'll need a terminal prompt, then change to the folder 
> where the user's home folder is located, and type something like:
> ln -s filename /Volumes/machd/users/shared/file
> This will create a new file in their home folder named filename, and will 
> sim-link it to the file located in the /users/shared folder that is called 
> file.
> The permissions on te file should be set so that the user has read access to 
> the file (since all users are in the same group, the default is to give read 
> access automatically), and assuming the ftp file system allows sim-links, 
> they will be able to download the file.
> There is no method of handling this task via the finder, so terminal is it, 
> unless you create an apple script to do the job for you (which btw wouldn't 
> be difficult), if you need help with it, drop a line, and I'll see what I can 
> do for you.
> hth.
> On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> So I've created an account for someone using the ftp server which is hidden 
>> in mac osx lion. tha'ts fine, but the file I want them to have is on another 
>> drive and i don't want to copy it to there account folder.  Is there a 
>> solution here to this quandry?
>> 
>> Thanks.
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