[X4U] Accessing files

[Doug McNutt]

At 19:15 -0500 2/15/07, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>you don't need sharepoints.
>You can mount one machine as a server to the other simply by going to  network and selecting the other machine (virtual disk-named for the  user) and all other attached and mounted HDs.
>Then use the User ID and password of the machine you wish access to.  This should make everything available so you can drag and drop and  open docs to your heart's content.

I think the OP has a problem with multiple users on the machines. There are still the Users and Groups concepts of the old Mac OS in the OS neXt environment. In fact one could say that the whole concept came from UNIX anyway.

All users can be set to belong to a group you create. From there the permissions of all users files can be set to allow access for that group. (Well perhaps you wouldn't want ALL anyway.) In any case if the permissions for directories and files are set correctly remote access will be possible for group members when they log in as themselves.

Someone here can probably point to the correct GUI preferences to accomplish all of that. I find the UNIX tools from Terminal.app easier but that comes from age and experience with UNIX in the 70's. There is the Netinfo control scheme.
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