Apple Training Series Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition

9 Click Save.

10 Choose FTP from the Computers & Services list, and stop and restart FTP service.

Network Mounted Share Points

You’ll often need to make files and folders on a server available to users on client comput-

ers. One way to do that is to tell users to connect to the server from the Finder. Connecting

from the Finder is easy, but it requires users to remember which server to connect to and

where to find the files on that server.

For frequently accessed resources, such as applications, libraries, or fonts, you might want

to simplify your users’ experience even more. If so, you can make a folder, disk, or partition

on a server mount automatically on some or all of the client computers in a domain. You

do this by configuring network mount share points.

For example, suppose you want to have a specific set of applications available to every user

in a given LDAP directory. You could create a share point containing the desired applications

and then set the share point to automatically mount into a /Network/Applications folder on

client machines that can utilize either the AFP or the NFS protocol. To do this, you configure

292 Using File Services