Humanities Computing @ Wesleyan: Accessing fileservers on the Mac
This documents is designed to help people understand what is involved in accessing the folders that they have access to on the fileservers. One can use the
- Using the chooser (located on the apple menu), choose "appleshare" in the upper left box, then scroll down to "fs4" in the lower left box. The
box on the right should then read something like "fs4-acad" .
double click on this.
- Another dialogue box should appear. One item will appear in the box.select it.
- A little red filing cabinet icon should now appear on your desktop, which is the fs4 volume where your folder lives.
- Open the cabinet. within should be a number of folders, one of which should say "data".
- Opening up the data folder, you should see a folder called "russian". Anyone who is a member of the russian group can see, copy, add, and delete things put in that folder.
- Also on fs4 should be a folder called "user" within that folder is a
folder with your username, which you and you alone have access to.
- To speed up the process of accessing these two folders, you can make
aliases of those folders and avoid some (not all) of the hassles of using
the chooser and such.
- You can also share documents by sending them as attachments to groups
that you establish using eudora.
You might want to talk further with me about some of the issues
involved in working collaboratively on documents, since one can very
quickly make a mess of things if one isn't careful about keeping track of
which version is the most current.
Posted:/96
Last Updated: 9/26/96
This document is located at:http://www.wesleyan.edu/humanities/docs/fileservers.html