Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 247)

File Services 247
Home Directory Only
In the Restricted user environment, real users are confined to their home directories and do
not have access to the FTP root or other FTP share points, as shown in the following
illustration.
Anonymous users and users without home directories still have access to the FTP root and
FTP share points. So that these users cannot see the home directories of real users, the
/Users folder is not set up as an FTP share point.
On-the-Fly File Conversion
FTP service in Mac OS X Server allows users to request compressed or decompressed
versions of information on the server. A file-name suffix such as “.Z” or “.gz” indicates that the
file is compressed. If a user requests a file called “Hamlet.txt” and the server only has a file
named “Hamlet.txt.Z,” it knows that the user wants the decompressed version, and delivers it
to the user in that format.
In addition to standard file compression formats, Mac OS X Server has the ability to read files
from either HFS or non-HFS volumes and convert the files to MacBinary (.bin) format. This is
one of the most commonly used file compression formats for the Macintosh operating system.
bin etc system Library
Data
Volumes
FTP
server
FTP root
Looks like "/ "
Reports
Betty Bob
Users
Projects
Photos
FTP share point
incorporated
within virtual root
Data Photos
Share point
Symbolic link