13.2. Peer-to-Peer vs. Client-Server Environments
Before we discuss how to configure file-sharing permissions correctly, it's important to examine the differences between peer-to-peer and client-server file-sharing environments.
It is common in a networked Mac environment to have a handful of computers, each with file sharing enabled, with users trading files back and forth between each other without a central repository for the files. This type of environment is known as peer-to-peer networking (P2P). Security in a P2P environment is generally straightforward and tends to be rather loose. Anyone with access to the computer usually has access to files on that machine.
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Peer-to-peer in this context is not the same as it is when using an application ...
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