Take Control of Sharing Files in Tiger

Chapter . Share Files on the Same Mac

Although this ebook focuses on file sharing across a network, you can share files among users of the same Mac. In Tiger, not all users are created equally nor are all files meant to be equally accessible. Tiger purposely and appropriately restricts one user from viewing or modifying the contents of folders in another user’s directory.

Users can exchange files on the same machine in one of three ways:

• The Shared folder: Located in the /Users folder, the Shared folder is set up so that all users who can log in to the computer may read and write any files in the Shared folder. Users can’t overwrite a file created by another user unless the default permissions on the file are changed by either the file’s owner or ...