Beth, I'm not sure why you're experiencing what you describe, but you might look at SharePoints to have a LOT more control over how and where you can set up shares.
<http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/> j. On Oct 1, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Beth Ernst <bernst at fastline.com> wrote: > Subject: MacGroup: Permissions/File sharing problems > > I'm trying to set up two machines running OS X to share files from one > machine to the other. > > We copy files from our home office server (a windows machine) to a Mac > at > another location. If the main computer at the other location is in use > we > copy the files to another Mac instead. Later they will recopy the > files to > the main machine. > I have file sharing turned on on both machines which allows me to > access the > machine as a guest. On the main machine I can see the drop box from the > second Mac, but when I try to copy the files from it to the main Mac it > tells me that I must type in an admin password to make changes to the > files > I'm trying to copy. I'm only copying them not moving or deleting so > why do I > need to be an admin to do this? > > Can someone advise me the best way to go about setting this up and > what the > permissions should be on the Public folders, etc.? > > Another question, I partitioned the drive when I set this machine up, > but > when I logged in as my user I didn't have access to either partition > to add > folders, etc. Did I miss a step in the partitioning process? I can > access > everything as admin. > > - --Thanks, > Beth -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 28. 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>
