<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>John,<br><br>I've solved this problem by using the unix 'link' command. I create a symbolic link to /Volumes/ThatOtherDrive in the home of the user directory. Works great, no overhead (it's a file system operation).<br><br>ln -s /Volumes/OtherDrive otherdrive<br><br>David<br><br>-<br><br>From: John Niven <senseamp@yahoo.com><br>Subject: [G4] G4 as a file server?<br>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."<br> <g4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><br>Message-ID: <526119.42600.qm@web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>I have a mixed PC mac home network.
Currently, a W2000<br>PC serves as file and print server but I'd like to<br>phase that out and replace it with a Gigabit G4. This<br>I have setup with a smallish boot drive and two 180Gb<br>SATA drives (mirrored) hooked to a Sonnet Tempo PCI<br>card.<br><br>Under Tiger, I have set up a "guest' account for<br>everybody to log in as, but whne I log in I can't see<br>the SATA drives. What do I have to do to allow others<br>to r/w files on the 180Gb mirror?<br><br>Should I be looking for osx server s/w?<br><br>John<br><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>