Using Netshare
Netscape Netshare provides iPlanet Web Server users with a personal
home page from which they can store, share, and manage their server documents.
Netshare is a convenient starting point for using the iPlanet Web
Server user services: Web Publisher, agents, and search. From their home
page, users can also obtain information about how they are defined in the
server's user directory: for example, their name, password, and telephone
extension.
As a Netshare user, you have your own personal home page that provides
easy access to iPlanet Web Server user services, such as Web Publisher
and search. You also have one or more personal Netshare home directories
that you can use for publishing documents that you want to store on the
server. You can direct other users to this directory as a central repository
of your server documents.
Displaying your home page
To display your default Netshare home page, type in this URL:
http://yourServer/netshare/yourUserID
For example, for the user JDoe on the server Markets,
you'd enter this URL:
http://Markets/netshare/JDoe
Another method for displaying your home page is to list of all Netshare
users on your server by typing this URL and clicking on the link listed
for your Netshare directory:
http://yourServer/netshare
Note: It's a good idea to create a bookmark to your Netshare
home page so you don't have to type the URL again each time you want to
locate it.
Controlling access to your home page
When your server administrator creates a Netshare home directory for your
user ID, you are assigned as its owner and are the only one who can write
to the directory. Other users can read your files, but cannot make any
changes to them unless you explicitly provide such access permissions.
This means that if you access the Netshare folder itself (http://yourServer/netshare),
you can click on any other user's Netshare to look at the contents of their
home directory, but you cannot modify their files or folders unless they
have explicitly set the access permissions to permit this.
If you are part of a group for which a Netshare has been created, you
and all other members of the group have permission to modify the files
and folders in the group's Netshare directory. However, only the user designated
as the owner by the server administrator when the Netshare was set up can
modify the access control rules for the group's directory.
Linking to other services
Your default Netshare home page displays a set of links that allow you
to access many server functions, most of which operate on your home directory
and the files it contains.
- Web Publisher: You can have direct access to the files and folders in your home directory.
- Access control: You can restrict access to your home directory.
- Search: You can search on any collection set up for your server.
- User information: You can review and modify your user information.
- User's Guide: You can look at Netshare online help.
Some functions open a new browser window, others use the right frame to
display their information. If you want to return to the original content
of your right frame, click the Reload button in your browser.
When you click this link, the Web Publisher applet starts up. Because you
launches it from your Netshare home page, Web Publisher displays all your
Netshare files and folders. Initially, the list includes the default set
of HTML files that are used to construct your home page, but you can add
other files and folders as your needs dictate.
When you click this link, the server displays the access control interface.
This allows you to set the access control for the file currently displayed
in the right frame.
When you click this link, the server's search function starts up. This
allows you to search on any collection (database of searchable data) that
has been created for your server. This includes the default web publishing
collection, which allows you to access the complete set of server files
and folders for which you have access permission.
When you click this link, the server displays a predefined subset of the
information stored on the server for your user ID. Typically, this includes
your name, password, and extension. You can use this form to change your
server password.
When you click this link, the online help system is displayed.
Customizing your Netshare home page
By default, your Netshare home page displays the netshare.html
file in the right frame. Initially this HTML file contains mostly text
and a few sample links, but you can revise this file to contain whatever
text, graphics, links, and other HTML elements you would like.
This file is the starting point for your workspace on the remote server
and is what other users first see when they access your home page. You
may want to provide some explanation of what other files, folders, and
services are available through your home page and display some navigational
links to route other users through your site.
This is the default set of files that is installed in your Netshare
home directory:
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netshare.html
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The default text that appears in the right frame.
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banner.html
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The banner across the top.
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home.html
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The frameset itself.
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menu.html
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The set of links in the left frame.
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test1.html
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A sample file.
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test2.html
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A sample file.
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netshelp.html
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This document.
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