Use the File Server Settings tab to change the way Access Connect interacts with Mac clients when it offers file sharing services.
If required for your connection, make changes to the AFP port. Although rarely necessary, you can type a new port number for the TCP/IP port the file server uses; the default is 548.
Note: If Macintosh clients cannot connect to your server, Access Connect may be running on a port other than the default. In this case, Access Connect displays a message on the Access Connect Administrator window warning you that you have picked a non-default port.
The logon message displays on the Macintosh users’ computers after they successfully log in. Leave the message blank if you do not want clients to receive a message when they log in. To increase the number of characters you can use in the message you send to clients, use the registry key. You can use as many as 500 characters; Macintosh clients using Mac OS 9 see fewer characters.
Note: Mac OS X 10.9 or later does not support sending messages.
If you are using some Access Connect volumes exclusively for home directories, check Enable Home Directory Support. In addition, you must enable home directory support for individual volumes when you set up the volumes; see the Volume Properties dialog box. This setting filters out all directories except the user’s home directory when the user asks for the contents of the volume.
Users do not see home directory volumes that do not contain their home directories.
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Network Reshare allows Access Connect AFP file volumes to give access to folders located on other servers and NAS devices on your network. Macintosh clients continue to connect to Access Connect using the standard AFP file sharing protocol, while Access Connect utilizes the SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol to access files that are requested by Mac users from remote servers and NAS systems. By doing so, Mac users retain all the benefits of AFP file sharing while gaining access to resources that have traditionally only been available through SMB/Windows file sharing. For more information on Network Reshares, see this section: Configuring Network Reshare support.
Click the Types and Creators button to fill out the Macintosh Type/Creator to Extension Mappings dialog box to meet your specifications. See Remapping Extensions for more information on remapping MS-DOS extensions to Macintosh types.
If you choose to allow guests to connect, a Macintosh user can log into the file server without supplying a name and password. Permission to connect does not give Macintosh clients access to your entire computer. You designate which volumes on your computer you want to share with Macintosh clients. See Creating a Volume. The user’s privileges during that session are limited to the permissions normally given to the Everyone group under Windows.
Note: You must configure Windows XP and later Windows systems so that guests can access the server. See Configuring Guest Access for Windows XP and above in Appendix D here.
Checking this option lets Macintosh users connect by sending their passwords in clear-text form over the network. Clear-text passwords may be a security problem and are limited to 8 characters. Mac OS X versions 10.5 and later do not allow clear-text authentication.
If you select this option, Macintosh users can encrypt their passwords before sending them across the network. With encryption, users have greater security and can use longer passwords.
This option provides support for “single sign-on” to network resources. It applies only to users with Mac OS X 10.3.5 or greater. See the section Using Kerberos which describes Kerberos in more detail.
This option turns on enhanced ArchiveConnect support for any file archive volumes shared with Access Connect. ArchiveConnect is a separate Mac client-side application that enables Mac OS X clients to access file archives without triggering unintended retrieval of offline files.
Select a custom label color that will be used to highlight offline files within the Mac OS X Finder.