Sharepoints http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/ Restores OS9 style ability to configure individual folder permissions. You should create her as a user in sharepoints because if you can't change the rights of the admin user. Get her to log-in in future as the user you create for her. Then you can choose to share folders on a case by case basis. R o b
On 8/1/06 10:13 AM, "Severin Crisp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want my wife to have access to many files on my G4 and its > connected Firewire disks. She has a G3 iMac with X10.4.3, same as > me, and file sharing between the two machines works smoothly either > way logged in as the appropriate administrator, ie she can log into > my computer with my name and admin password and do anything she likes > and me likewise to her computer. Therein lies the problem. I am > competent not to damage her files but the same, sad to say, and she > would agree with me!, is not the same in reverse. For example, I > would hate her to accidentally damage our photo collection, even > though it is separately archived. Can I organise "Read only" access > for her to those files and disks, Ie how can she connect to my whole > computer with other than administrator privileges. I seem to > remember how to do this in OS9 but cannot figure it out for X. > Severin Crisp >
