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9 Preface: About This Guide
9 What’s in This Guide
10 Using Onscreen Help
10 Documentation Map
12 Viewing PDF Guides Onscreen
12 Printing PDF Guides
12 Getting Documentation Updates
13 Getting Additional Information
14 Chapter 1: Understanding File Services
14 Protocol Overview
15 Protocol Security Comparison
15 Protocol Comparison
16 Deployment Planning
16 Determining the Best Protocol for Your Needs
16 Determining Hardware Requirements for Your Needs
16 Planning for Outages and Failovers
17 Chapter 2: Setting Up File Service Permissions
17 Permissions in the Mac OS X Environment
18 Kinds of Permissions
18 Standard Permissions
20 ACLs
22 Supported Volume Formats and Protocols
22 Access Control Entries (ACEs)
23 What’s Stored in an ACE
23 Explicit and Inherited ACEs
23 Understanding Inheritance
26 Rules of Precedence
27 Tips and Advice
28 Common Folder Congurations
29 File Services Access Control
29 Customizing Shared Network Resources
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