[CUBE] How do I set up Local Network password? Thanks for the Help.

[J.C. Webber III]

atoa at krak.net wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Snow White wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, all you who responded to my original question (except that guy
> > with the "rocket science" crap.
> 
> Hey, I responded twice. I guess you chose to ignore my first response, or
> you would have reposted earlier.
> 
> >
> > So, now I understand that I need to create an account to log into on
> > the server machine and this is how I get in.  This is very different
> > from OS 9 in that in 9 I could set a computer to let another connect
> > with a specific pass and access information as set out in the Get Info
> > on the files/folders.
> >
> > The part I was missing was I need to create a new user on the server
> > computer for each computer I wish to network to it.  Now I can access
> 
> NO! You don't. You still don't get it. You can log into your "server box"
> from practically any computer connected to the lan, even if in Baghdad
> assuming an internet connection, with the same user/pass. You don't need
> to create a separate user/pass for every computer that wants to connect.
> 

Yes you do.

It can be the *same* username and password, but the server box needs
to know who you are.

Unless you're doing nfs exporting and mounting, but that's not what
we're talking about here, we're talking about afp (or smb in the case
of linux or windows servers).

You try and mount an afp filesystem from a machine that doesn't know
you and all you'll get is dropboxes.

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