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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Public Folder Can Access Your _Entire_ HD
Message-ID: <1883@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 89 07:42:10 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
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Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In a recent posting siegman@sierra.UUCP (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
| Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but one of my grad students
| discovered that if you name your Public Folder ":" instead of
| "Public", then everyone else on your network can access _everything_
| (including _all_ the folders) on your HD.

But you can only get at what is visible from the root directory.  You
cannot go into a folder and choose items from there.  (Unless you have
more than one copy of P.F. running! :-)

Anyone know how to access a volume _other_than_ the boot volume?  It
seems not to be a supported feature, although a bit of the documentation
seems to imply this is possible.

Thanks Claris!  That solves a simple backup problem we've been having.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu