Mac OS X File Sharing

Open NetInfo Manager and authenticate.

Create a new subdirectory in /config/SharePoints/ (click on config, then on SharePoints, then select Directory -> New Subdirectory).

Set the name value to be what you’d like the share to be called (double-click on the Value column next to name).

Add a new property (Directory -> New Properyt) and name it directory_path.

Add a new value for directory_path. The value needs to be the path of the folder or volume (for example, /Users/username/Pictures).

name -NetInfo name
directory_path -Path to directory
afp_use_parent_owner -Boolean: Use owner of parent?
afp_use_parent_privs -Boolean: Use privileges of parent?
afp_shared -Boolean: Share this item?
afp_name -Name visble to clients

Save your changes in NetInfo.

In the Finder, set the privileges on the folder or volume you’ll be sharing. Do Show Info, then Privileges, and pick what you like — Drop Box, Read Only, etc.

Stop and restart the AFP Server from the Sharing preferences panel.

Connect from a client and they will see the new share.

I’m a little grouchy

I’ve got a sore back and I can’t walk properly and it hurts šŸ™
So needless to say the person to my right in the office insisting on having a conversation on speakerphone very loudly in an ‘I’m very important listen to my conversation’ kind of way is doing my nut in.

Again and again

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I do. I can’t help it. Sometimes it gets me in trouble.
It didn’t tonight but I still wore it.
Some things in life I think you just have to do.

Can I change my life for any price?
Oh Johnny won’t you listen to me?
I just want you to be mine
I don’t want this world to shine
I don’t want this bridge to burn
Oh Johnny do you miss me?
I just want to be free

friday diversions

1. What was the first band you saw in concert?

Depeche Mode

2. Who is your favorite artist/band now?

Oh come on that’s not fair – way too many to choose from – Safri Duo is very high on the list though

3. What’s your favorite song?

D:Ream – Things can only get better

4. If you could play any instrument, what would it be?

Piano

5. If you could meet any musical icon (past or present), who would it be and why?

Ooh ooh – Gary Barlow (hey you all knew I was a sad man before and this only confirms it)

Photo Friday

This week’s challenge: “Skin“.

Links:
Friday Five
Photo Friday

Scary Wide Web

Well actually scary wide world. The web seems positively tame by comparison to this story about “new girl“. Poor Joey. It could have all been much worse.
To think I stopped putting personal stuff on my blog because I was concerned about privacy.

six pints of lager

Allegedly that’s all it takes to get some straight men into bed.
Sometime I wonder if the same is true of gay men. Six pints and they go straight. Okay maybe not quite so cut and dried as straight or gay. You know where I am going with this I don’t need to lead you down the route. I’m feeling quite guilty about a comment I made to a friend before I came home to the UK from Sydney. It involved the usual bad taste of likening women to fish. I’m starting to see outside my conditioning of soho bars and bitchy queens. People are people and we like them for who they are.

I needed six pints of lager to recover from the topsy turvy day I had. All was going well. The sun was shining. My boss is happy with me. My colleagues all seemed happyish in the light of nasty shenanigans at work.

I arrived back in the office a few hours later to mayhem.

So more beers and a bad game of pool later and I was heading off to the brewers (yes again).

I had intended an early night tonight to make up for the excesses of the weekend. Ha. When you have friends in other time zones that never quite happens does it. Also when you have friends who may need another six pints of lager tomorrow.

friday diversions

The Friday Five

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

I really couldn’t tell you. Lots let’s put it that way.

2. Which was your favorite and why?

My parents. It’s big and old with a huge hall and a cottage in the back garden. Need I say more?

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?

Exciting. Think of the possibilities of a new place and a new area.

4. What’s more important, location or price?

Um I guess living in London price. I’d like to think location though.

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?

Lots of open space and windows for masses of light.

Photo Friday

This week’s challenge: “Spring“.

Links:
Friday Five
Photo Friday

futureforests and treesforlondon

My flight to Sydney and back via Kuala Lumpur was an estimated 34368 Km and produced 3.78 tonnes of CO2. According to futureforests.com I need to plant 5 trees to make my flight CarbonNeutral or supply 5 energy saving lightbulbs to a small community in the developing world. So that’s an additional ?42.50 to think about before I buy my next trip over. I think to be fair they should just add another tax.
I’ve gone for the trees option as I’ve already been sponsoring trees with treesforlondon.co.uk

Where you an April Fool?

The Guardian’s Onlineblog.com has a round up of some of the better April Fool pranks played on the internet.