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Network Shares and Multiple Users

I have several users using the same iMacs in the office. They all have network logins using mountain lion server run off a mac mini. They share several directories that are automounted on login. The sharepoints are setup using User Groups to create their priveleges. When one user is already logged in and has their shares mounted, we are having trouble when a second user logs in. The second user is setup to have access to the same shares, but if the first user is logged in, the share points for the second user show up on the desktop with red circles with a line across them and no access. Both users are in the same User Group that ought to have access to the folders, and if either user logs in without anyone else logged in, they have access without a problem.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Oct 3, 2012 10:55 AM

17 replies

Oct 15, 2012 6:16 PM in response to mille1j

I am not a legal advisor, but I highly recommend against you using DropBox. It is not designed to be compliant to HIPAA standards, and allows your staff to easily access data in an unprotected way from home.

The limitation has mostly to do with the AFP that is being used for the file shares. You may have success sharing your folders via WebDAV (listed as sharing to iPads/iOS in Server.app) which uses an HTTPS protocol, or by sharing via SMB. You can also enable NFS sharing via command line.

If you are looking for a cloud-based file sharing solution, I would be sure to find one that uses some sort of encryption for data transmission as well as data storage.

Jan 10, 2014 5:08 PM in response to mille1j

Sharing machines across different clients with short login/logout has also caused me a problem. The AFP protocol creates the mount point with the ownership of the mount creator and hence can't be shared across clients. Wish there was a way to allow multiple users access the shared resource via AFP. I am having problems even for read access.

Network Shares and Multiple Users