A simple way to set up a basic workgroup file server

Over the years, we've run a number of hints detailing solutions to a seemingly simple issue: how to set up a Mac as a shared file server for a workgroup, such that multiple users can create, modify, and delete files and folders on that machine. (There are permissions issues related to users modifying files and folders created by other users.) The solutions I've linked to here all solve the problem in one way or another, and do so with some measure of security remaining in place. Last weekend, though, while browsing the Macworld forums, I came across a post that contained an amazingly easy alternative solution -- one that inspired one of those "D'oh! Why didn't I think of that?" reactions. On the machine that you want to use as the shared file serv...
Fri, 16 May 2008 16:30:01 +0200

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