Time | This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete. |
Goals | Use Sharing preferences to grant remote clients access to local files |
Use Sharing preferences to enable Personal Web Sharing | |
Locate the files that correspond with the computer's main website, as well as the user's website | |
Turn on the firewall in Sharing preferences so that access through IP ports for inactive services is blocked | |
Enable remote connections via SSH | |
Troubleshoot network services issues |
In the previous two lessons, you've seen how you can configure networking and access network services in Mac OS X. To complete the network picture, this lesson discusses providing services to other clients on the network. For example, you can share a file or folder with a group of people you're working with, or host a website on your computer.