Chapter 16. Information Bays (i-bays)
example, at midnight tonight he can access his i-bay to show his spouse the design used for his invitations!
16.5. An i-bay Used as a Shared Network Drive
Having a shared network drive can be very helpful as a way of storing and sharing documents company-wide. TPV uses an i-bay for
a company-wide network drive to hold documents to which all employees should have access. All employees can read and write files
to this directory.
The i-bay is accessed via Windows file sharing, AppleTalk or FTP. To access using file sharing, simply access the server over the
network (via Network Neighborhood) and open the appropriate i-bay . You will see the files located in the
files
directory and can
then open them or copy them to your system.
Note: This is only true if the i-bay has been set to allow public access via web or anonymous ftp. If an i-bay is set for no public
access via web or anonymous ftp, users connecting to the i-bay through Windows or Macintosh file sharing will simply see the
contents of the
files
directory. However, if the i-bay settings are later changed to allow public access through web or anonymous
ftp, users will then see the top-level directory of the i-bay with the three subdirectories of
html
,
files
and
cgi-bin
. The items they
were used to seeing before will now be found in the
files
directory.
As an example, when the staff of The Pagan Vegan goes into their Network Neighborhood, they double-click on "E-smith-server" as
shown in:
They will then see a list of i-bays accessible through Windows file sharing. When they click on one of them called "sharedfiles", they
see the three folders inside of the i-bay:
When they go inside of
files
, they will then see the list of documents provided there:
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