Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 205)

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Sharing
The Sharing module of Workgroup Manager lets you share information with clients of the
Mac OS X Server and control access to shared information by assigning access privileges.
You share information by designating share points. A share point is a folder, hard disk (or
hard disk partition), or CD that you make accessible over the network. It’s the point of access
at the top level of a group of shared items. Users see share points as volumes mounted on
their desktops, and as volumes in the Finder in Mac OS X.
Setting up share points and assigning privileges is an integral part of setting up file services.
See Chapter 5, “File Services.”
Privileges
Privileges define the kind of access users have to shared items. There are four types of
privileges that you can assign to a share point, folder, or file: Read & Write, Read Only, Write
Only, and None. The table below shows how the privileges affect user access to different
types of shared items (files, folders, and share points).
You can assign Write Only privileges to a folder to create a drop box. The folder’s owner can
see and modify the drop box’s contents. Everyone else can only copy files and folders into
the drop box, without seeing what it contains.
Users can
Read &
Write Read
Only Write
Only
None
Open a shared file Yes Yes No No
Copy a shared file Yes Yes No No
Open a shared folder or share point Yes Yes No No
Copy a shared folder or share point Yes Yes No No
Edit a shared file’s contents Yes No No No
Move items into a shared folder or share point Yes No Yes No
Move items out of a shared folder or share point Yes No No No