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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