Questions regarding setting up file sharing.

[Jay Beck]

I¹m new to running MacOS X (v10.5.8) Server and I have a few questions about
File Sharing setup.

First here is what I want to achieve:

1)  I have three users, each with a machine and their own Œstandard user¹
account.
2)  I would like to create a file share as follows:
3)  On the server, each user has his own account.
4)  I¹d like the users to access a share structured as follows:
         /Shared Items/Common                 (accessed by only my three
users who can can old Œr¹)
                                  /Common/Lib          (accessed by only my
three users who can Œrwx¹ any folder/file starting at this root)
                                 /Common/Bus         ( same as for lib)

Questions:
1. On the server, who owns the folders and files that are put into Common
and its sub directories?
2. If the owner is different from any of my user account names do I create a
new Œgroup¹ on the server that this Œowner¹ and my on-server user accounts
all belong to, and thus allow my users to access the files through their
shared group permission?

Thanks,

Jay
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[Dan Shoop]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jay Beck wrote:

> I’m new to running MacOS X (v10.5.8) Server and I have a few  
> questions about
> File Sharing setup.
>
> First here is what I want to achieve:
>
> 1)  I have three users, each with a machine and their own ‘standard  
> user’
> account.
> 2)  I would like to create a file share as follows:
> 3)  On the server, each user has his own account.
> 4)  I’d like the users to access a share structured as follows:
>         /Shared Items/Common                 (accessed by only my  
> three
> users who can can old ‘r’)
>                                  /Common/Lib          (accessed by  
> only my
> three users who can ‘rwx’ any folder/file starting at this root)
>                                 /Common/Bus         ( same as for lib)
>
> Questions:
> 1. On the server, who owns the folders and files that are put into  
> Common
> and its sub directories?

Whomever created them or was set via chown.

> 2. If the owner is different from any of my user account names do I  
> create a
> new ‘group’ on the server that this ‘owner’ and my on-server user  
> accounts
> all belong to, and thus allow my users to access the files through  
> their
> shared group permission?

You could.

A far better method is to use ACLs.

-d

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