Dan, I'm sure that you will get lots of responses to this, but let me offer my $.02 just in case...
Get SharePoints. You can get it at VersionTracker here: <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12512> OS X doesn't have sharing of particular locations (like OS 9) other than certain places in the Users folder. Sharepoints opens it all up for you. One other thing I might recommend to all MacGroupies is to get some of the "Take Control series", especially the one on Sharing Files: <http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/panther/sharing.html> There are others on that site that deal with other subjects related to Panther. They're expensive ($5 to $10 each) for their size and the fact that they are not paper and ink, but they are very focussed and provide just what you need to understand and use each particular subject. j. On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:15 PM, macgroup-digest wrote: > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:36:59 -0500 > From: Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> > Subject: MacGroup: Sharing volumes in OS X > > In OS 9 if I wanted to share a volume (say, a Firewire hard drive > connected to Computer A), I would have selected that volume while I was > on Computer A, do a "Get Info", choose "Sharing" and put a checkmark in > the "Share this item and its contents" box. Then I would set up sharing > privileges for various users. > > How would I accomplish the same in OS X? > > I have just attached a Firewire drive to a computer running OS X 10.3.2 > and now I am trying to access that drive from another computer on the > same LAN. I have turned on Personal File Sharing in the "Sharing" > preference panel; I have established myself as a user on that computer > and I have put an alias of the drive ("Big Disk") in the Public folder > in my User folder. When I connect to this computer from another > computer, logging in under my own name, the Big Disk alias shows up in > my Public folder, but when I click on it I get the message "The volume > for "Big Disk" cannot be found." > > What am I doing wrong? > > Dan -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com NewMedia Construction Company Serving corporate and non-profit communicators with: Photography - Graphic Design and Production Writing and Editing - Data Management Solutions Multimedia Production - Macintosh System Support | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
