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File/Volume/HD Sharing on Network

by AARTIPOPAT Jan 31, 2011 12:24AM PST

We have a spare 'Mac Pro G5 tower running OS X 10.3.9', within which we have upgraded the HD's to 1TB each, we want to use this tower as a networked storage device, which we will back up every night. I have turned on File sharing on this 'storage' tower, but we can only see the towers 'public folder on 1 volume, how do i make the second HD visible so that we can store data to it?

I have tried logging into the client Mac as Admin, but still cannot see all directories on the 'storage' tower, how can i create another 'volume to mount' ? Is this indeed possible? I am sure i've done this previously, well, at least used this way of working!

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/181 - I WENT OFF THIS!

We are all working on Mac Pro Towers/iMacs running OS X 10.6

Your help would be much appreciated.

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when you connect to the Storage tower,
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Jan 31, 2011 3:10AM PST

use the name and password of the admin of the storage tower.

This should enable you to see all of the drives and their contents.

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Already tried this
by AARTIPOPAT Feb 1, 2011 5:43PM PST

Hi,

I already tried this, i logged in as an admin from one of the mac's we are trying to connect to it, this still dosent allow me to see all the drives/contents!

Do you have any other suggestions? or are we doing something wrong?

Thanks

Aarti

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Not as an Admin
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Feb 1, 2011 8:51PM PST

log in as same person who is already logged onto that machine.

For instance, if you log onto that computer and are able to read/write to everything, log on from a remote computer as yourself.


Being an Admin in OS X does not allow you to look at everything and everybody's stuff, unlike Windows.

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GOT IT
by AARTIPOPAT Feb 1, 2011 8:58PM PST

it works, Thanks for your help!!! Happy

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(NT) Glad to help
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Feb 1, 2011 9:03PM PST
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