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- Challenges of File Sharing
- Different Protocols for Different Clients
- Planning File Services
- Using Apple Filing Protocol
- Configuring Apple File Service
- Monitoring AFP Activity
- Using Windows File Service
- Configuring Windows File Service
- Configuring Access and Starting Windows File Services
- Using NFS Share Point Access
- Configuring NFS
- Using FTP File Service
- Configuring FTP Service
- Network-Mounted Share Points
- Preparing for a Network Home Folder
- Configuring Network Mounts
- Controlling Access to Shared Folders
- Troubleshooting File Services
- What Youve Learned
- References
- Chapter Review
This chapter is from the book
What You’ve Learned
- The first step when implementing file-sharing services is to plan out the shared services needed.
- A share point is any folder, drive, or partition that you make available to network clients. Share points are created and configured in Server Admin. A share point can be shared over AFP, SMB, NFS, or FTP. Access control lists can be used to set very flexible restrictions on share points and folders.
- Mac clients normally access share points over AFP, which is configured in Server Admin.
- Windows service allows share points to be accessed by Windows clients over SMB.
- NFS provides UNIX systems with access to share points. Unlike AFP and SMB, NFS relies upon the IP address of the computer for authentication (unless you’re using Kerberos).
- Mac OS X Server provides FTP access for share points as well. Mac OS X Server’s FTP service provides the additional feature of automatically encoding, archiving, or compressing a file on the fly, based upon the extension that the client adds to the filename.
- Automount share points and network home folders also can be configured on Mac OS X Server.