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Re: Available Shares via AFP

From: Derrick Seymour <email@hidden> 

The public folder would be my first option.

Second, create a shared folder on the server, have it
connect when the user logs on, give you and the user
permissions to read write.  Upon connection when the
user logs on the share will be on the desktop, one
more double click away from the file actually being on
the desktop.

If the appearance of the new item on the desktop is important, a good option would be just to put an alias of the user's dropfolder on the desktop of the user, or onto the Dock of the user. Then anything new put into the dropfolder will be only one click away. The advantage of using the Dock is that you can set it up so that the image of the folder will change to show what has been put into it.

large scale - multiple folders inside the share with
'public folder' permissions for each users folders
solves the problem if the client computer is turned
off

The real solution is to completely ignore client computers. Make everyone folders on the server that everyone can access. You can put things into someone else's folder, and you can look at other people's folders. That way, the way the files are accessed on any particular client computer is irrelevant, and the whole system works no matter which client computers are turned on and who is logged into them.

If user jabrams has admin rights for a computer named Studio-C, and jabrams connects to Studio-C via AFP, jabrams will not see any public folders

Your turn 'public folder' doesn't mean anything. Whether or not they can be seen will depend on where the folder is: whether it's part of the user's folder, a hard disk, a volume mounted over the network.

- only Macintosh HD,

jabrams will be able to access all parts of any mounted HD which admins can access.

his own home folder 

jabrams will be able to access all parts of his home folder.

and any other locally mounted volume

It depends on whether the volume is a hard disk attached to that particular computer, or a volume mounted over the network. But note that unless you have set something up specially, when no users are logged in on that particular computer, only the boot volume is mounted. By default even external hard disks are mounted only when someone is sitting at that computer /except/ if you're running OS X Server.

If user jabrams has standard rights for a computer named Studio-C, and jabrams connects to Studio-C via AFP, jabrams will see all Public folders, but not any locally mounted volume, correct?

That's closer to what I'd expect. But your term 'Public folder' doesn't mean just one thing. You can give people permission to put things into a folder, but not look at what people have already put into it. Or do the opposite: to look at what other people have put in a folder, but not put things in it themselves.

Take a close look at what the existing public folders attached to everyone's accounts do by default. See what the difference is between the Public folder itself and the Drop Box inside that folder.

Simon
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Simon Slavin                               Fylde Building Room C11
Computing Development Officer              01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster


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