System information

120 Chapter 8 Managing Groups
Creating a New Group
You can create a new group whenever some server users need their own shared group
folder, or when you need to control access to shared folders and les.
To create a new group:
1 Click the Add (+) button in the Groups pane of Server Preferences.
2 Enter a name for the group, and optionally change the short name.
The group name can be up to 255 characters (which can be as few as 85 Japanese
characters). It can include spaces.
After you create the account, you can’t change the short name. If you don’t want to use
the generated short name, enter a dierent short name.
The short name typically is eight or fewer characters, but can be up to 255 Roman
characters. Use only the characters a through z, A through Z, 0 through 9, . (period),
_ (underscore), or - (hyphen).
3 Select the services you want the group to have, and deselect the services you don’t
want the group to have.
File Sharing Folder: Provides a le sharing folder for the group. Members can get les
from the group’s shared folder and put les in it. It’s named after the group’s short
name and is located on the server’s startup disk in the /Groups/ folder. Clicking the link
arrow next to File Sharing Folder opens the group’s shared folder in the Finder.
iChat Autobuddy List: Automatically adds the Jabber IDs (screen names) of all group
members to each member’s Jabber buddy list. If the group has external members,
they aren’t included in the iChat autobuddy list.