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i guess easy is relative
Authored by: badrad on Jul 24, '02 03:57:40PM

I dont know Unix. That simple.

All I want to do is get as close as possible to the ability of the filesharing in OS 9, where you could easily browse all the volumes on all the computers on the network, with full read and write privledges. Our network is shielded from the outside so security is not an issue.

I installed apache 2.0, i cant even begin to configure it because OS X likes to hide entire directories and stuff from me, and I dont know all the terminal commands.

Gah! OS X is getting closer and closer to being used on all our machines at the office. I am the only one using it now, and i had to really work hard to get that approved. Ive got all the quirks worked out, and the only remaining barriers, short of a few missing drivers (damn you epson! and hurry up lacie!), the only 2 remaining barriers are a native quark (which should happen eventually) and this damn filesharing stuff!



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found another hint that did it
Authored by: badrad on Jul 24, '02 04:17:49PM

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011108161839416

I am still working out making some extra things writable, but I was able to accomplish what I was after with this.



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found another hint that did it
Authored by: badrad on Jul 24, '02 04:42:04PM

Ah, further toying with the method I described that I used shows it is not as complete as I thought. While the entire volume is readable, it is not writeable. Plus, if I set a directory to writeable, it does not set subdirectories.

I would like it so any subdirectories/files inherit the privlidges, plus any new files/directories created after the setting of the privledges inherit them. Just like OS 9. Am I making since?



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