NETWORK SERVICES AND SHARING IN MAC Sayed Ahmed BSc. Eng. in Computer Sc. and Eng., BUET, Bangladesh MSc. in Computer Science, U of Manitoba, Canada http://sayed.justetc.net http://www.justetc.net sayed@justetc.net Just Et Cetera Technologies 1
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NETWORK SERVICES AND SHARING Sharing Files and folders Printers Web sharing (web server) Share with bluetooth devices Remote management sharing Other built-in sharing 3
WHERE AND HOW TO SHARE Apple menu [click] System preferences [click] Internet & network Sharing [click] You will see all sharing options in this centralized place Click on sharing Give a name to your computer [Computer Name] Display name [on the first screen not a network name] but change the default otherwise expect conflict click on edit ->give local hostname [name used by the network] Hostname User/password Xyz.laptop.local No need to restart the computer after these configuration changes 4
SETTING COMPUTER NAME Options Local Hostname [] Use dynamic global hostname Hostname User Password [] Advertise services in this domain using Bonjour 5
REMOTE MANAGEMENT SERVICE Control/configure Remote Management Know about VNC client Click on Sharing [under system pref] Default stuff Screen sharing File sharing Printer sharing Web sharing Remote login 6
SHARING OPTIONS Click on Sharing [under system pref] Remote management Remote apple events Xgrid sharing Internet sharing Bluetooth Sharing 7
REMOTE MANAGEMENT Others will manage your computer using IP Screen sharing can be controlled by remote management Remote management Allow access for All users Only these users Configure for local users as well 8
CONTROL USERS WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REMOTE MGMT What these users can do from remote Observe Control Show when being observed Generate reports Open and quit applications Change settings Delete and replace items Send text messages Restart and shut down Copy items 9
COMPUTER SETTINGS Remote Management related Show remote management status in menu bar Anyone may request permission to control screen VNC viewers may control screen with password Mac has other software for remote management 10
FILE SHARING Mac Off by default [in windows by on by default] Enable it You can select and share folders from here Control user access Control whom you want to shareand how [read, write, full control] Sharing by Afp [windows users can access] FTP SMB [windows users cannot access] Server Message Blocks 11
PRINTER SHARING Print and fax preferences Accessible by both windows and mac 12
WEB SHARING Mac based on Unix Macs comes with Apache built in User web-site Home->sites [root of local web-sites users] Computer root web-site: Library->web server->documents 13
REMOTE LOGIN Built in ssh in terminal [remote login has to be enabled] Remote login -> you can restrict who can do this You can enable only the administrators Better: use remote login with remote management Ssh less bandwidth, faster Trouble shooting can be fast Graphically can be slower Does not interrupt the user 14
REMOTE APPLE EVENTS Send other apple computer send events to this computer Distributed computing environment Will use rarely unless any application that you are using need this feature 15
XGRID SHARING Grid computing sharing Tasks are distributed to the workstation where xgrid sharing is enabled On->set password Click configure and set the following ->define controller server > when to accept tasks 16
INTERNET SHARING Old internet connection sharing like windows Essentially making the computer a router Share your connection from To computers using Performance is ok Airport Express Can share internet [effective and faster] 17
BLUETOOTH Share files to other bluetooth devices Does not affect synchronizing Blue tooth keyboard or mouse [don t get affected] File sharing over bluetooth Configuration When receiving items Folder for accepted items When other devices browse Folders others can browse 18
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