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Welcome to Take Control of Sharing Files in Tiger, version 1.0.

This ebook helps you share documents among computers and over the Internet safely. This ebook was written by Glenn Fleishman, edited by Tonya and Adam Engst, and published by TidBITS Electronic Publishing.

You can contact TidBITS Electronic Publishing by sending email to and view the Take Control Web site and catalog at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/. You can read About This Ebook to learn about the author, the publisher, and the Take Control series. The title page contains copyright and legal info.

The price of this ebook is $10. If you want to share it with a friend, please do so as you would with a physical book, meaning that if your friend uses it regularly, your friend should buy a copy. The Help a Friend button on the cover makes it easy for you to give your friend a discount coupon.

We may offer free minor updates to this ebook. Click the Check for Updates button on the cover to access a Web page that informs you of any available or upcoming updates. On that page, you can also sign up to be notified about updates via email.

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If you use Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 or 7, make sure your Web Capture preference is set to view Web URLs in a Web browser before checking for updates. To do so, choose Acrobat > Preferences, switch to the Web Capture pane, and choose In Web Browser from the Open Web Links pop-up menu.

Onscreen Reading Tips

We carefully designed the Take Control ebooks to be read onscreen, and although most of what you need to know is obvious, note the following for the best possible onscreen reading experience:

  • Blue text indicates links. You can click any item in the Table of Contents to jump to that section. Cross-references are also links, as are URLs and email addresses.

  • Work with the Bookmarks tab or drawer showing so that you can always jump to any main topic by clicking its bookmark.

  • Find more tips at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/readingtips.html.

Printing Tips

Although our layout is aimed at making online reading an enjoyable experience, we’ve made sure that printing remains a reasonable option. Please review these tips before you print:

  • Use the Check for Updates button on the cover to make sure you have the latest version of the ebook and to verify that we don’t plan to release a new version shortly. If you want to commit this ebook to paper, it makes sense to print the latest possible version.

  • Don’t throw out your PDF after you print! You must click the Check for Updates button on the cover to get future updates. The link must be accessed from the cover of your PDF.

  • For a tighter layout that uses fewer pages, check your printer options for a 2-up feature that prints two pages on one piece of paper. For instance, your Print dialog may have an unlabeled pop-up menu that offers a Layout option; choose Layout, and then choose 2 from the Pages per Sheet pop-up menu. You may also wish to choose Single Hairline from the Border menu.

  • When printing on a color inkjet printer, to avoid using a lot of color ink (primarily on the yellow boxes we use for tips and figures), look for an option to print entirely in black-and-white.

  • In the unlikely event that Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader cannot successfully print this PDF, try Preview; several readers have solved printing problems by using Preview.

Basics

In reading this ebook, you may get stuck if you don’t know certain basic facts about Mac OS X or if you don’t understand Take Control syntax for things like working with menus or finding items in the Finder. Please note the following:

  • Path syntax: I occasionally use a path to show the location of a file or folder in your file system. Path text is formatted in bold type. For example, Tiger stores most utilities, such as Terminal, in the Utilities folder. The path to Terminal is: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.

    The slash at the start of the path tells you to start from the root level of the disk. You will also encounter paths that begin with ~ (tilde), which is a shortcut for any user’s home directory. For example, if a person with the user name glenn wants to install fonts that only he can access, he would install them in his ~/Library/Fonts folder, which is just another way of writing /Users/glenn/Library/Fonts.

  • Finding preference panes: I sometimes refers to Mac OS X preferences that you may want to adjust. To change these system wide settings, open System Preferences by clicking its icon in the Dock or choosing System Preferences from the Apple menu. You access a particular preference pane by way of its icon, or the View menu. For example, to see “the Sharing preference pane,” you would launch System Preferences and then click the Sharing icon or choose View > Sharing.

  • Menus: When I describe choosing a command from a menu in the menu bar, I use an abbreviated description. For example, the abbreviated description for the menu command that creates a new folder in the Finder is “File > New Folder.”

What’s New

This ebook is a new version of Take Control of Sharing Files in Panther. The book has been updated to reflect the changes between Panther and Tiger, which are primarily cosmetic: some interface elements have changed, some aspects of file sharing have become simpler, and, generally, Tiger is more consistent in its use of terms and labels. Tiger didn’t introduce significant new methods, servers, or problems.

This new ebook provides:

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