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2 Setting Up Share Points
This chapter describes how to share specific volumes and
directories via the AFP, SMB/CFIS, FTP, and NFS protocols.
It also shows how to set standard and ACL permissions.
You use the Sharing module of Workgroup Manager to share information with clients
of the Mac OS X Server and control access to shared information by assigning access
privileges.
To share individual folders or entire volumes that reside on the server, you set up share
points. A share point is a folder, hard disk, hard disk partition, CD, or DVD whose files
are available for access across a network. It’s the point of access at the top level of a
hierarchy of shared items. Users with privileges to access share points see them as
volumes mounted on their desktops or in their Finder windows.
Share Points and the Mac OS X Network Globe
If your Mac OS X operating system is configured to connect to LDAP directory domains
and set up per specific data mapping, you can control the access and availability of
various network services by using the Workgroup Manager application to:
• Identify share points and shared domains that you want to mount automatically in a
user’s /Network directory (the Network globe in Finder windows).
• Define user records and group records and configure their settings.
• Define lists of computers that have the same preference settings and are available to
the same users and groups.
Automounting
You can configure client computers to automatically mount share points, which can be
static or dynamic.
Static share points are mounted on a client computer during startup and its contents
are immediately available when selected. You can assign statically mounted share
points specific directories within the /Network directory (the Network globe).