I agree joe, but given that there is only 1 user in this group (and assuming that's the way it stays) then i'm not too worried about this, but thanks for the info, as I'm more of a windows guy.

ok I think I am going to have to go to my "Plan B" route, I created a new regular user. I chmod that users documents folder (using sudo) to 770 and created a softlink to that folder in my documents...

again this wouldn't work because I just want to share say 2 or 3 folders on the network that you can see when you login, I do not want to see everything that I would have access to if I was in front...

Actually the entire hd is there. If you log in as guest, you can only see that a drop box exists (of course you can't see the contents of the drop box).

But I'm talking about when you login as a...

I want to share files between two mac osx computers, connected in the same network.

These computers are password protected etc...

so after I enable Personal File Sharing in the System...

I still want the list of users, I just don't want specific accounts to be visible on that list. I hope that makes more sense


thanks!

how can I hide a user from the login screen?

for instance in windows xp, you can press ctrl+alt+del twice, and it will allow you to manually type in a username/password. I administer some...

I would use textedit, but for the reasons I mentioned above it never allows me to open the files as a text file

Ok so I am a PC user, but my new job requires the use of macs (with os x). With that in mind I am looking for any ascii text editors (that HOPEFULLY) are free. If you are a windows user basically...