🚀 go-pugleaf

Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
> 
> >I've seen several sites where I've been assured that all
> >the Macs had file sharing disabled and that guest access was blocked
> >only to find that I could log in within minutes as a guest onto a users
> >machine.
> 
> I'm sure.
> 
> Incidentally, there seems to be a bug in File Sharing.

Well, there was the old "mis-feature" in 7.0 (or maybe 7.0.1) where
sharing was *on* by default, until you switched it off....

>I configured one Mac on a (different company's) network so that one
>>volume had nothing checked (no see, read or write) even for the owner
>when accessing remotely. This wasn't for any security reasons, just to
>avoid confusing people with an irrelevant volume. Yet the volume still
>showed up on the network.

Did the machine have other volumes shared, and did it show up
greyed out?
"They all do that sir"

If you want to avoid confusing people, give them aliases - in the 
past I've managed to upgrade servers (from a Q700 to a Workgroup
Server) *without* any users' aliases breaking. :-)

rgds, Alan