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.
Jerry
On Jul 14, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> 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
>
> On Jul 14, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
>
>> Schoun et alia:
>>
>> ... continuing a discussion of several weeks ago ...
>>
>> I have installed OS X (10.3.4) regular version (non-server) on the
>> machine I want to use as our file sharing server. Now I would like to
>> set it up as follows (if this is possible):
>>
>> Assume 10 total users accessing this computer via LAN, all on Macs
>> running either X or OS 9.
>>
>> I want each user to be able to log on to the server using his own
>> username and password, but once logged on, I want each user to have
>> access to a folder or volume that contains "drop-box" (write-only)
>> folders for all other users -- so that User 1 can log on and easily
>> "drop" files into the folders of Users 2, 3, 5 and 10 (but not be
>> able to see the contents of those users' folders).
>>
>> Each user would have read/write access to his own folder, but that
>> folder would appear as a drop box to all other users.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that if I set User 1 up with a user account
>> on the file-sharing computer, when User 1 logs on he only has access
>> to the "User 1" volume/folder -- which contains his own drop box and
>> other folders that he might create -- but no access at all to the
>> "User 2" volume/folder, and therefore has no easy way to drop a file
>> into User 2's public drop box.
>>
>> In OS 9, this was fairly easy to do using the "Users and Groups"
>> function of the File Sharing control panel, but so far I haven't been
>> able to figure out how to do it in X.
>>
>> Your answer below seems to indicate that you I can set up a folder
>> that a group would have access to, but I don't see any way to then
>> define which users are part of that group. There are predefined
>> groups that show up in the Get Info box under Ownership and
>> Permissions, and each user account appears as a group, but I don't
>> see a way to put several users accounts together under one group.
>>
>> I realize the ultimate answer may be: Get OS X Server, but I want to
>> understand fully the file-sharing capabilities of "regular" OS X
>> before I go that route.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>>> Question #1: If I upgrade the "server" computer to OS X (non-server
>>>> version), will I be able to accomplish all of the same things that
>>>> we
>>>> are doing now: drop folders, assigning of user and group privileges,
>>>> etc.? It is my understanding that those features are not built into
>>>> OS
>>>> X regular version, but that I could accomplish much the same thing
>>>> using a shareware program called SharePoints. Is that accurate
>>>> (assuming you're familiar with SharePoints)?
>>> You have three options when sharing:
>>> One person can be the owner of the folder
>>> One group can be associated with the folder
>>> Guests can also be associated with the folder
>>> Each one of those categories can have different permissions.
>>> Each one of the categories can read only, write only, read/write, or
>>> have no
>>> access at all.
>>> You will have a folder with you as the owner, and you can read and
>>> write to
>>> the folder with the files inside.
>>> You will have a group associated with the folder. They can have read
>>> and
>>> write access to the folder with the files inside too.
>>> You can turn off guest access to keep others out.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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