Leopardus wrote:
Hi swtsae,
Set up family share to solve your requirement wrt Apps and iTunes purchases. OS X will set up these automatically. In addition to making the specific document folders shareable which you want to share. In iTunes you also have to enable Home Sharing
Another solution would be to have a shared documents folder with an Access Control List for the documents.
If you have more questions, feel free to ask.
Have fun
Leo
Hi Swatsae,
Home sharing in iTunes allows you exactly that, to be able to play, view and use the music, etc in your iTunes library.
You could also in the preferences pane for iTunes make the Library fully shareable.
It could also be possible in iPhoto, but I have not done that before. I use iTunes like that though, centrally managed.
The other work files though, you could use the following
If you want to share things between users on the same Mac, use the /Users/Shared folder. Keep your home folder private, as defeating the protections on the home folder subfolders just gets messy.
With using the Shared folder, you would need to alter the ACL's (Access Control Lists) to allow modification of said documents in the folder.
You will have to create a Group in Users and Groups and put each of the authorised users in that group. Inside the /Users/Shared folder you will then have to create a folder where you aspire to share the files.
Pasting the following in Terminal will add an ACL to that new folder that gives the members of the group permissions on that new folder.
sudo chmod -R +a "<newgroup> allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /Users/Shared/<newfolder>
Just replace newsgroup and newfolder with the corresponding names of the Group that you have created and the new Folder name. Then, paste it in Terminal to run. The ACL will enable the users that you put in that sharing group the corresponding right to edit, copy, paste etc within the folder.
Have fun
Leo