On 03/05/2006, at 7:15 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi all
- OSX Tiger 10.4.6 -
I'm having a bit of a problem getting to grips with setting folder
permissions to get the results I want. I have set up a number of user
accounts eg
€ an admin account for setting things up but not used day to day
€ my main user account
€ account for the other half to use computer without messing up
my stuff!
€ a separate account for a community group I do stuff with
€ a genealogy account for our family history stuff
I don't have a problem with the general principle that each user
has access
to his own user folder plus the shared folder. But I want to be
able to set
up some other folders with selective access eg:
1) More folders like the shared folder that everyone can access and
read/write to so that besides the overall shared I can have shared
category
folders.
2) Folders fully available to some users but not others (as we did
in the
old days of file sharing where we created groups of users and gave
access to
the relevant groups.) OSX seems to work on this principle but how
do I set
up a group comprising, say, 3 users so that I can set folder access
to allow
any of these three users full access but not the other (say, two)
so not
just give access to "Others".
3) I also seem to remember being able to set folder privileges to
allow
certain users to be able to read/write files in the folder but not
be able
to move/rename or delete the actual folder. How does one go about
this in
OSX.
Mac "Help" does not seem to be too helpful here!
I know this seems a bit obscure, but I'm hoping someone out there
can help.
Not obscure at all :-)
This is what permissions are actually for.
'I think' that Sharepoints will do for you what you need.
It allows you to create and populate groups and then assign them to
shares you've created, so with a little trial and error you should be
able to set your folders up as you require.
I assume you can switch between accounts to test your settings.
Have fun
Paul
PS It took me 2 mths of cramming to pass an MCP exam on this sort of
stuff, so the average Mac OS X user should be able to do this in less
than 2 days I'd imagine ;-)
HTH
