Specifications

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To create a share point:
1 Open Server Admin and connect to the server.
2 Click File Sharing.
3 Click Volumes to list the available volumes to share.
To create a share point of an entire volume, select the volume from the list.
To share a folder within a volume, select the volume in the list and click Browse to
locate and select the folder.
4 Click Share.
If you must create a folder for your share point, click Browse, click New Folder, enter
the name of the folder, and click Create.
5 Click Save.
By default, the new share point is shared using AFP and SMB, but not FTP and NFS.
To congure your share point for a specic protocol or to export the share point using
NFS, click Protocol Options and choose the protocol. Settings specic to each protocol
are described in the following sections.
From the command line:
To create a share point: m
$ sudo sharing -a path -s shareflags
Parameter Description
path The full path to the folder you want to share.
shareags A three-digit binary number indicating the
protocols used to share the folder. The digits
represent, from left to right, AFP, FTP, and SMB.
1=shared, 0=not shared.
For information about command-line parameters, see “Creating a Share Point”
on page 142. For information about sharing, see its man page. For the basics of
command-line tool usage, see Introduction to Command-Line Administration.
Setting Privileges
Mac OS X Server provides two methods of access control to les and folders:
Standard permissions and ACL permissions. These methods are described in the
following sections.