Jerry: Thanks for the input. In order to give each user access to the entire hard drive, I presume I would have to give them administrator access -- which isn't necessarily a problem, although I would _prefer_ not to give them access to the Applications, System and Library folders in the root directory.
Your addendum appears to give a way to still access the drop boxes even if the user has restricted access -- but would that mean that the user would have to go through that process of selecting all the names each time he logged on to the server? Or is there a way to alias that whole process? Is there a way to give restricted user (or admin users for that matter) access to just the Users folder? In OS 9 I had set up a "Net Folder" on the server machine that was the only folder shared, which gave everyone access to the folders inside that folder, but not to anything else. Any idea if the shareware program SharePoints would make any of this easier? Dan > Addendum: > > If the accounts are really restricted (as you might want), then when > that account tries to log on, after it gets pass the password stage, a > list of names will be presented, select all of them and those drop > boxes will be mounted you you to put things in. > > > Hey Dan, > > Piece of cake (smile). Try this for your OS-X users. > > When they log in from their own box, via the LAN, to the OS-X "server" > box, mount the entire hard drive, not just their own account. > Open that drive and go to the Users folder. Each one of the other > users accounts are sitting there as folders. Inside of the other > account folders is that account's Public folder which contains the > drop box. > > They will be able to put things in the drop boxes but not mess with > stuff in the other person's account if they are not allowed to. > If you want you can make aliases for each drop box and put those on > the local desktop, for quick and easy access. > > I haven't played with doing this from OS-9 to OS-X for a while, but it > was set up in a similar fashion, so I think it will still work that > way as well. > > Jerry > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
