Macintosh Manager 1.3: Setting Up and Using a FireWire Drive

Four areas must be considered when setting up a FireWire disk drive for use with Macintosh Manager 1.3:

• Admin setup
• Client setup
• How to connect to a FireWire volume
• Privileges

Additionally, this article tells what to do if a user encounters difficulty saving documents to a particular folder.

Admin Setup

A FireWire hard drive is treated as removable media by Macintosh Manager 1.3. To connect to a FireWire (IEEE 1394) hard drive volume the workgroup must have at least Read only access to removable media. Follow these steps to set up privileges for removable media:

1. Open the Macintosh Manager administration program.

2. Connect to a Macintosh Manager server; a window appears.

3. Click the Workgroups tab in the window.

4. Select the workgroup for which you want to set privileges.

5. Click the Privileges tab.

6. Use the pop-up menu titled "Removable Media (except CDs)" to set privileges. (If privileges are set to Disabled, workgroup members cannot use FireWire drives and media.)

Client Setup

The client computer(s) must have the appropriate driver software installed for the FireWire drive.

Connecting to a FireWire Volume on a Client

1. Make sure the FireWire drive is disconnected from the client computer.

2. Log in from a client computer.

3. When the log-in process has completely finished, connect the FireWire drive.

If you encounter difficulty, log out and start over at step 1.

Disconnecting a FireWire Drive on a Client

1. Put away the FireWire drive volume by selecting it on the desktop and choosing Put Away from the File menu, or by dragging the volume's icon to the Trash.

2. Disconnect the FireWire drive.

All removable media are put away automatically when a user logs out from Macintosh Manager, so a FireWire drive can safely be disconnected when the login screen reappears.

Privileges Issue

The removable media access privileges assigned to a workgroup apply to the entire volume for every member of the workgroup. Even though individual user folders are created on the volume, all members of the workgroup have equal access to the entire contents of the removable media volume. For example, a user in a workgroup that has read only privileges for removable media has read only access to all folders on a removable media volume.

Difficulty Saving to a Specific Folder

If you encounter difficulty saving documents to a particular folder on a FireWire drive, and you know you have read and write privileges for removable media, delete the folder and create a new one. Follow these steps to delete the folder and create a new one:

1. Log in as a user who has system access.

2. Temporarily move all files out of the faulty folder, then delete the folder.

3. Log out.

4. Log in as the user to whom the folder will belong.

5. Create a new folder.

6. Move the files that were in the faulty folder into the newly-created folder.

7. Log out.