allowing NT/2000 machines to see Mac/Library folder on network ???

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djbeta

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Hi,

I'm hosting a web site on my LAN from a mac running 10.3.

I have PC Sharing enabled.

I would like my Windows NT & 2000 associates to be able to connect to the mac, to the Macintosh HD/Library/Web Server/Documents folder in order to edit the .html pages.

I tried connecting via Windows Sharing.. but this only gets me into the user's folder, not into the main hard drive.

I also tried enabling 10.3's ftp sharing... but the 10.3 documentation is nonexistent for setting up shared ftp folders.

Could someone please help ?????

Thanks so much for any help you can provide.
Steven
 
Did you try to make an alias/link on your home folder to the Library? If that doesn't work, why don't you share your whole HD? You will need to change some ownerships, but this is no big deal beside a security issue.
 
I tried to make aliases from the home folder to the web folder.. with no luck.. they show up as unrecognized windows objects on the PCs..

how would I go about sharing the whole home folder via FTP.. ?

I don't even see how to share a single folder via FTP using Mac OS 10.3's help.
 
When a user turns on filesharing, all files and folders that belong to that certain user will be shared. All other folders will have different ownerships. If you edit those, you will be able to share volumes and drives as well. But messing with ownerships isn't really recommended
 
djbeta said:
Hi,

I'm hosting a web site on my LAN from a mac running 10.3.

I have PC Sharing enabled.

I would like my Windows NT & 2000 associates to be able to connect to the mac, to the Macintosh HD/Library/Web Server/Documents folder in order to edit the .html pages.

I tried connecting via Windows Sharing.. but this only gets me into the user's folder, not into the main hard drive.

I also tried enabling 10.3's ftp sharing... but the 10.3 documentation is nonexistent for setting up shared ftp folders.

Could someone please help ?????

Thanks so much for any help you can provide.
Steven
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It would probably be a better idea to setup a user account for the group that you want to be able to edit the pages... rather then editing the root site. Store the web docs in the users Sites folder. If you want those pages to be the default webpages, you'll need to edit the doc root section in Apache's httpd.conf file.
 
djbeta said:
I tried to make aliases from the home folder to the web folder.. with no luck.. they show up as unrecognized windows objects on the PCs..
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Aliases won't work...you'll need to break out the symbolic links for it to function properly. So open the terminal and type away (man ln):

ln -s /the/original/dir /the/directory/you/want
 
Thanks so much.

the ln command worked wonders... hey that Unix stuff is pretty cool (slight joke here).. but seriously.. it's nice to see a unix command do exactly and simply what i couldn't do with the Panther finder !!

thanks again,
Steven
 
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