how to set up user access to partitioned hard drive?

[fuzz]

I need a better way of letting my users access a particular partition of a hard drive on one of my computers. I've a network of 3-5 macs on a network. The partitioned hard drive is on computer A for instance. Occassionally, users on computer B or C may need to move data to the partition on computer A. The users do not have admin rights, and the only way for them to access this volume is to connect to computer A as the admin. Then OS X will give the user this volume/partition to mount. Is there a better way of doing this?

I do have a 2nd hard drive on computer A, but as before, it does not allow a non-admin user to mount it.

Thanks!

[michaelsanford]

Firstly, what are the permissions on that volume?

Secondly, when you say only admin can mount the volume, are you using NFS, Samba, or AppleTalk (or Rendezvous Personal File Sharing or whatever it's called in Panther :P)?

[bobw]

You can use SharePoints (free);

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12512

[fuzz]

Originally Posted by michaelsanford

Firstly, what are the permissions on that volume?

Secondly, when you say only admin can mount the volume, are you using NFS, Samba, or AppleTalk (or Rendezvous Personal File Sharing or whatever it's called in Panther :P)?

the Group is unknown, but has Read and Write permission. the admin and the non-admin user have read and write permission too. I've the setting "Ignore ownership on this volume" checked.

I'm using AppleTalk. Yes, all the computers are using Panther 10.3.4.


bobw, i'll check it out thanks!

[michaelsanford]

I've heard good things about SharePoints, bobw's not only pointed you in the right direction, he led you all the way :P