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10.4: Let Simple Users mount any network volume
Authored by: macfreek57 on May 14, '06 01:42:58AM

Under Tiger, you can always set the individual user's home directory to be on an external drive. This will at least allow access to one drive at a time. First, create a folder titled with the user's name on the volume you want to share. Select the folder and "Get Info…" from the file menu. Under "Ownership and Permissions", change the owner to the user who will be using it. In NetInfo Manager (in Utilities), authenticate with the lock icon. then choose the user (in the Users directory) who you want to allow access to the external/other volume. Then, in the properties/values box, change the Property "home"s Value to the path of the new user folder you created on the external drive (it will probably start with /Volumes/ExternalDrive/…). When the user logs on from the network, they will have access to the external drive.
I guess this is useless since that guy wrote Sharepoints, but I like to be able to do stuff without having to install anything extra.



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