User manual APPLE APPLESHARE 3.0

[. . . ] INTRODUCTION This introduction provides information to people who are new to AppleShare as well as to those who are not. The first section gives new AppleShare users an overview of the AppleShare services and features. If you've used previous versions of AppleShare, you can skip directly to the section "What's New in AppleShare 3. 0?" Also included in this chapter is a list of additional books for further information on AppleShare and networking. If you are using system software version 7. 0 or later, the procedures for using shared files are slightly different. [. . . ] To view your access privileges to folders owned by other network users, follow these steps: 1. Choose Get Privileges from the Finder's File menu. The Access Privileges window appears. This window tells you what privileges you have to the volume as well as who owns it and with what groups of users it is shared. Storing information on a file server To store information in your own folders on a file server, follow these steps: 1. Choose New Folder from the File menu. A folder named Empty Folder appears in the window. Type a name for the new folder. You are now the owner of a folder on a file server. By default, your new folder allows you, its owner, full access privileges: you can see files, see folders, and make changes to its contents. In addition, the privileges allowed to other network users are the same as the privileges of the folder that contains it. For example, if you create a new folder within a folder that grants all privileges to members of the Marketing Department but only the See Folders and See Files privileges to Everyone, your new folder will have the same privilege settings. To change the privilege settings to your new folder, see the next section, "Setting Access Privileges. " Setting access privileges If you are a registered user and you create a new folder on a file server, you become, at least initially, the owner of the folder. As the owner, you set the access privileges to the folder and, if desired, transfer ownership to another network user. When you store information on a file server, consider how you want others to be able to access that information. If you are a guest user and you create a folder on the file server, the owner name of the folder automatically becomes <Any User>. This means that you must share ownership of the folder with all other network users. In addition, any registered user can claim ownership by changing the name of the owner of the folder. (For more information about claiming ownership of a folder, see the section "Transferring Folder Ownership" later in this chapter. ) 1. Select a folder that you own on the file server. Folders that you own have a darkened tab. Choose Get Privileges from the File menu. The Access Privileges window appears. When you own the selected folder, the window includes a grid of checkboxes for you to assign access privileges to it. When an "X" appears in a checkbox, that privilege is allowed. After you have made changes, if you want to revert to the access privileges originally set, click the Undo button. See the next section, "Access Privilege Choices, " for information about strategies for setting access privileges. [. . . ] At first, it may appear as if the server won't accept your registered user name or password, but a message will tell you that the server has been shut down. - You may not have sufficient access privileges for all of the contents of the folder. To delete a folder, you must have the Make Changes privilege to the folder and any folders it contains. In addition, if the folder you're trying to delete is enclosed within another folder, you must have the Make Changes privilege to that folder, too. [. . . ]