How set sharing on an entire folder

Question

Is there anyway to set sharing on an entire folder's contents. When you set sharing on a top folder, it does NOT set sharing on any folders within it. This terribly inconvenient to have to go to every folder and subfolders to make them sharing.
Please tell me there is a way to set ALL subfolders down the tree in a folder to sharing!

Answer 1

Barney, thanks.
The folder in question is a web development folder...htdocs.This folder basically houses all the websites that I work on, each subfolder is a website. These reside on my iMac in my office and I wanted to copy them across the network to my MacBook Pro. Even though I connect to my Mac with my user name, it won't let me copy these files to my MBP, which I thought was strange, seeing that I have access to all levels of those files natively sitting in front of my iMac. So I set out to "share" everything so I could copy it to my MBP. :
htdocs
|----------ABC Company Website
|----------List of files
|----------Images
|---------list of images
|----------XYZ Company Website
The ABC folder has files and a subfolder for say, images, and one for Admin. The XYZ folder might be similarly structured with more files and more subfolders.
So what I wanted to do was go to the ABC Folder, set it as shared and hope everything under it would get shared also.
First, I just right clicked ABC and clicked Get Info, and then clicked Shared Folder. That shared the folder and its files, but not the subfolder Images. I had to go in and set THAT folder to be shared also. Once ALL subfolders were set to "share" I was able to copy the ABC Folder to my MBP
The problem is that I have 50 websites with varying numbers of levels. Going one by one is a pain.
So that's why I wanted to "share all levels" of a top folder.
I DID try right clicking ABC, clicking Get Info, then setting Read and Write on the ABC folder (unlocking and authenticating). Then I DID click the Apply to all levels option. But this didn't result in sharing or allowing me to copy.
Finally I went to the terminal and issued a sudo chmod -R * 777 in hopes that it changed ALL the permissions to full read/write/execute. This ALSO didn't allow me to copy from my mac to the MBP.
ONLY setting EACH folder to "Shared" allowed me to do this.
OSX seems a bit different than Linux in the way the -R works I guess.
So, with all that, maybe you can figure out what I need to do?
Thanks.