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Apple AppleShare 3.0 User Manual

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1. Choose Access Privileges from the Apple menu.

A dialog box appears with a list of folders in the current volume.

2. To find a folder on a different volume to which you are connected, click

the Volume button in the lower-right half of the dialog box.

3. Select a folder in the list of folders.

4. To find a folder within that folder, click Open Folder until the one you

want is listed.

Or double-click the folder name to see the contents of a folder.

5. Click Folder Info to see or change the access privileges to the selected

folder.

The Access Privileges window displays the privileges for the selected folder.

It also displays the name of the owner of the folder -- in this case, either

you or a group of users to which you belong -- and the name of the group that

has been assigned access privileges.

6. To set access privileges, click the appropriate checkboxes.

See "Understanding Access Privileges" earlier in this chapter for details

about setting access privileges.

7. Click View Another to return to the dialog box with the list of folders.

8. To see your access privileges to the entire volume, click Volume Info.

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CHAPTER 3

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USING APPLESHARE PRINT SERVICE

AppleShare print service lets you return to doing useful work while your

document is being printed. Your computer sends printing information to a

print server, which stores and routes that information to the printer. Print

service works behind the scenes; all you need to do is choose the Print

command, select your options, and the rest happens automatically.

About the print server

Part of the print server software, the spooler, can manage print requests for

printers on a network. The spooler stores all documents to be printed and

sends them to the printer on a first-come, first-serve basis. Your network

administrator usually determines which network printers take advantage of the

spooler software. Most often, a spooler is given the name of the printer it

manages with the word Spooler appended to it.

To use the spooler, select the icon of the printer you want in the Chooser,

select a zone if necessary, and then select the name of the printer with

spooler you want to use.

Don't confuse spooling with background printing. Both spooling and background