Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 171)

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Creating Group Directories
Before you can designate a directory as a group directory, you must create a share point for
the directory. Chapter 4, “Sharing,” tells you how to use Workgroup Manager to create a
folder and share it.
If you are using AFP to share the group directory, you can take advantage of automatic group
share point and group directory creation by choosing the Network option on the Volumes
tab for the group account in Workgroup Manager. To work with other sharing protocols and
share points, you must use the Advanced option on that tab.
Automatically Creating Group Directories
When you initially set up a server, an AFP share point named /groups is created automatically.
You can automate the (overnight) creation of group directories in the /groups share point
when you use Workgroup Manager to define groups in a NetInfo or LDAPv3 directory domain.
To set up an automatically created group directory:
1 In Workgroup Manager, open the group account you want to work with if it is not already
open.
To open an account, click the Account button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the account resides. To edit the group directory information, click
the lock to be authenticated. Select the group in the group list.
2 Click the Volumes tab.
3 Select Network.
4 Click Select to choose a server from a list of servers that host a /groups share point in a
directory domain in your current search path. The group directory is created immediately
below it using the group’s short name. The server name you choose appears in the Server
field.
Alternatively, enter a server name in the Server field. The group directory is created
automatically only if the server you specify hosts a /groups share point in your current search
path. Otherwise, you need to create an AFP share point on that server named /groups and,
within it, a group directory with the short name of the group.
5 In the Owner Name field, enter the name of the user you want to own the group directory so
he or she can act as group directory administrator. Click Users to choose an owner from a list
of users in the current directory domain.
6 Optionally check one of the boxes that automate visibility of the group directory for group
members when they log in to a Mac OS X computer.
Check “Show group documents” to automatically display the group directory in the Dock.