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- Setting Up LAN Post Offices and Mailboxes
- to Work with the Object Exchange
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-
-
- The Object Exchange lets you use your existing local area network
- to send and receive objects by setting up LAN post offices and
- mailboxes. A LAN post office is a directory to which all users in
- your workgroup have access, and a mailboxes are subdirectories
- contained within the post office directory.
-
- To use the Object Exchange with your LAN,
-
- 1. Create a post office by selecting a shared area to which all of
- your correspondents have access, and creating a directory. For
- example, J:\OBEXPOST, where J: is the name of a network drive
- and OBEXPOST is the name of the post office.
-
- 2. Create a mailbox for each user by creating subdirectories under
- the post office directory. For example, J:\OBEXPOST\USER1 and
- J:\OBESPOST\USER2.
-
- 3. When you configure your LAN account in the Object Exchange, enter
- the mailbox name (for example, USER1) in the Mailbox Name edit field,
- and the post office path in the Post Office Path edit field (for
- example, J:\OBEXPOST).
-
- 4. If you want to protect your correspondents' privacy, give the
- following capabilities to users by assigning the appropriate
- network rights to each mailbox:
-
- * Read and delete files for the mailbox owner
- * Scan, create, and write files for all other users
-
- For detailed information on how to assign rights to mailboxes on
- various LANs, see the instructions below.
-
- If you want to experiment on your own, you can create post office
- and mailbox directories on your local hard disk, and mail and publish
- objects to yourself.
-
-
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- BANYAN 5.0
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-
- 1. Log in to the Banyan server from a network workstation.
-
- 2. When prompted, enter your login name. Enter either your Banyan
- nickname or your full StreetTalk user name, including your group
- and organization names.
-
- 3. When prompted, enter your password. If you don't have a password,
- or if this is the first time you've logged on to the first server
- on a network, press Enter.
-
- 4. After the server displays a report on network resources activated
- during your login, a logical drive designator appears, just like a
- DOS prompt:
-
- E:\>
-
- This is the default login drive for the Banyan network system just
- after Banyan system installation. If you've set a different default
- drive in your user profile, the drive you set appears instead.
-
- 5. Create a directory for the Object Exchange post office files. For
- example:
-
- G:
- CD \
- MD PO
-
- 6. Create one directory, or mailbox, in the post office directory for
- each user. For example:
-
- CD PO
- MD USER1
- MD USER2 etc.
-
- 7. Set the access rights list for the post office directory and the user
- directories using SETARL.
-
- The SETARL program sets the access rights list for a resource. When
- the program prompts you for the directory name, enter the post office
- directory name (for exmaple, PO). For the post office directory,
- enable all access rights -- Owner, Group, and World -- for all users.
- For each user mailbox, enable W (rite) and C (reate) only, and set
- the ownership correctly.
-
- Consult the chapter on "Services" in the "Banyan Administrator's Guide"
- for more information about access rights.
-
-
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- Microsoft Lanman 2.1
- --------------------
-
- 1. Run NET ADMIN for the server to open the Lan Manager Administrator
- window.
-
- 2. From the Lan Manager Administrator window, determine what security
- mode you're running in by selecting Config from the menu and choosing
- Server options. If user security is checked, you're in user security
- mode. If it isn't, you're in share security mode.
-
- Installation differs depending on the security mode. For user security
- mode, follow these instructions:
-
- a. Choose View|Shared Resources to open the Shared Resources at
- \\SERVER dialog box, where SERVER is the name of your server.
-
- b. Choose Add Share.
-
- c. When you see a list, select Disk Directory and choose OK.
-
- d. Type the name you want for your post office in the Sharename
- text box (for example, PO).
-
- e. If your applications are installed on drive C, type C:\APPS\PO
- in the Path text box.
-
- f. Choose OK to confirm settings and OK to create directory.
-
- g. Lan Manager opens the Select a File for Access Permissions
- dialog box. With <current directory> selected, press Enter.
-
- h. You see the Access Permissions for \\SERVER \PO dialog box, where
- SERVER is your server name. Choose the W (rite) and C (reate)
- permissions.
-
- i. Move to the Not permitted list and highlight the *USERS group and
- choose Permit to transfer the *USERS group to the Permitted list.
- You should see *USERS (WC) in the Permitted list. Repeat this
- procedure until all users have WC permission to the post office.
- Choose OK to confirm your settings.
-
- j. Lan Manager returns to the Select a File for Access Permissions
- dialog box. Choose Done.
-
- k. Lan Manager returns to the Shared Resources at \\SERVER dialog
- box, where "SERVER" is your server name. Choose Add share to
- add another sharename. Choose disk directory and OK to confirm.
-
- l. In the Share a Directory with the Network dialog box, type the
- name of a mailbox directory. It is recommended that you use the
- Lan Manager user name of the individual as the mailbox name for
- ease of system administration.
-
- m. In the Path text box type
-
- C:\PO\mailbox name
-
- where mailbox name is the username of the individual for whom
- you are creating the mailbox. Choose OK to confirm your settings
- and OK to confirm that Lan manager should create the directory.
-
- n. Lan manager opens the Select a File for access Permissions dialog
- box. With <current directory> selected in the pick list, press
- Enter.
-
- o. Lan manager opens the Access Permissions dialog box. Choose all
- rights (the entire left hand column) and permit ONLY the owner of
- the mailbox to be on the Permitted list. Repeat this step for all
- mailboxes you need to create.
-
- p. Choose OK to confirm your settings. Choose Done at the Select a
- File for Access Permissions dialog box. Choose Done at the
- Shared Resources at \\SERVER dialog box. Exit from the Lan
- Manager by choosing View|Exit.
-
-
-
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- AT&T StarGroup 3.5.1
- --------------------
-
- These instructions assume a Unix-based server.
-
- 1. From the server, log in as Root.
-
- 2. Create a directory, set the ownership, group and permissions for
- the post office. Be sure you are in a file system with some
- free space. For example,
-
- mkdir PO
- chown lmxadmin PO
- chgrp DOS---- PO
- chmod 777 PO
-
- where PO is the post office name
-
- 3. Create directories for mailboxes, set the ownership, group and
- permissions. For example,
-
- cd PO
- mkdir user1
- chown user1 user1
- chgrp DOS---- user1
- chmod 722 user1
-
- 4. Logout of the server and login to a workstation with administrator
- rights and run WIN NETADMIN. (you can use the command line to
- administer StarGroup, consult the "Administering Lan Manager" guide
- for more information)
-
- 5. Set the focus on the server and then View|Shared Resources.
-
- 6. Choose Add Share.
-
- 7. When you see a list, select Disk Directory, then choose OK to confirm.
-
- 8. Type the name you want for your post office in the Sharename text
- box (for example, PO).
-
- 9. If your applications are installed on drive C, type C:\APPS\PO in the
- Path text box. Choose OK to confirm settings.
-
- 10. Lan Manager opens the File Permissions dialog box. Select Permit All.
- Choose Save to save your settings and Done to exit the File
- Permissions dialog box. Choose OK to confirm your settings.
- Exit from the Administrative menu by choosing View|Exit.
-
- 11. No sharename needs to be set up for individual mailboxes, as the
- Unix permissions set on the directory should be sufficient.
-
-
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- IBM Lan Server 2.0
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-
- 1. At the server, select OS/2 full screen and run NET to open the IBM
- Lan Server Administrator window.
-
- 2. From the IBM Lan Server Administrator window, select
- Definitions|Aliases|Files.
-
- 3. From the Manage Aliases-Files menu, highlight New then choose
- Actions|Create from the menu.
-
- 4. Complete the Create Aliases panel. Enter the path for the post
- office in the Server path to Directory box. Be sure to select At
- Server Startup for the When Shared box. Press Enter when done.
-
- 5. At the Manage Aliases-Files menu, highlight the new alias you created
- and choose Access Profile|Create from the menu.
-
- 6. Complete the Create the Access Control Profile form. Enter W (rite)
- and C (reate) in the Universal Access Permissions box. Press Enter
- when done.
-
- 7. Repeat steps 1-5 for each mailbox you need to create except select
- As Required by User at the When Shared box. Create the Create Access
- Control Profile form with the same Universal Access Permissions as
- step 6.
-
- 8. At the Manage Aliases-Files menu, for each mailbox you create,
- select Access Profile|User List and add the permissions XRWCDAP for
- the owner of the mailbox. Press [Enter] when done.
-
- 9. From the main IBM Lan Server Administrator window, select
- Actions|Resource Sharing to be sure the post office directory
- is being shared. The mailbox directories don't need to be shared.
-
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- 3Com Share and 3Com Open
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- Follow instructions for Microsoft Lanman above.