Specifications

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Note: QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) and WebDAV have separate permissions
settings. For information about QTSS and Web Technologies Administration see the
QTSS online help, QuickTime website (www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss) and
QuickTime Streaming and Broadcasting Administration. You’ll nd information about
Web permissions in Web Technologies Administration.
Explicit Permissions
Share points and the shared items they contain (including folders and les)
have separate permissions. If you move an item to a dierent folder, it retains its
permissions and doesn’t adopt the permissions of the folder where you moved it.
In the following illustration, the second folder (Designs) and the third folder
(Documents) were assigned permissions that are dierent from those of their
parent folders:
Engineering
Read & Write
Designs
Documents
Read Only
Read & Write
When ACLs are not enabled, you can also set up an AFP or SMB share point so new
les and folders inherit the permissions of their parent folder. See “Changing AFP
Settings for a Share Point” on page 39 or “Changing SMB Settings for a Share Point”
on page 40.
The User Categories Owner, Group, and Others
You can assign standard POSIX access permissions separately to three categories
of users:
 Owner—A user who creates an item (le or folder) on the le server is its owner and
automatically has Read & Write permissions for that folder. By default, the owner of
an item and the server administrator are the only users who can change its access
privileges (but you can enable a group or others to use the item). The administrator
can also transfer ownership of the shared item to another user.
Note: When you copy an item to a drop box on an Apple le server, ownership of
the item doesn’t change. Only the owner of the drop box or root has access to its
contents.