To give users access to any of your AppleShare IP services, you
need to register them by creating "user accounts," or you need
to enable guest access to provide access to anyone on your network
or the Internet (if your network is connected to the Internet).
This section also tells you how to manage and protect your users
and groups information.
Once you've created your users and groups, you can assign them
access to different AppleShare IP services, depending on their
needs. For information about server-specific user settings, see
the server section (in the main table of contents) that has the services you want to provide to your users.
What's new in AppleShare IP 6 users and groups:
If you've upgraded from a previous version of AppleShare, you'll
notice that the following users and groups features have changed
in AppleShare IP 6:
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Option to share the users and groups information |
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If you have AppleShare IP services installed on more than one
computer, you have the option of designating secondary servers
that update their local users and groups information from the
primary server's master AppleShare IP Registry. This allows you
to perform all of your user and group administration on one computer:
the primary server. |
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Separate guest access for each service |
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In AppleShare IP 5, guest privileges were the same for AppleShare
file sharing, FTP, and Web services. AppleShare IP 6 provides
additional flexibility by letting you enable or disable guest
access for each service. |
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Flexible mail access |
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The administrator can enable user access to mail through IMAP,
POP, or both protocols. |
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User account access with administrator password |
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The main administrator (who is named as the computer owner) can
use his or her password with any user name when logging onto the
Web & File Server. This allows the administrator to check a user's
access privileges to the Web & File Server by logging onto the
server as the user. |