Permissions, Sharing, Etc.

Question

I've just hired 2 interns and so for the first time I'm setting up new user accounst other than my own administrator account. There are a few things I'd like to do.
1. I figured out that I need to put the files I want to share with both interns into the Shared folder. I'm guessing I did that right because it seems to work. I was however having trouble writing to the Shared folder from on of their accounts. I can't tell what to do with permissions. When I go into the document foler I'm sharing with them and click Control I for info I get a permissiond dialogue for Owner, Group & Others. What's this all about? Apply to enclosed items? Can't be undone? I'm confused.
2. I'd like for both users to have the use of all or most of the software installed on my machine. How can I set that up? Is there a way to only give them access to some software but not all?
3. I'd like to set up their Docks to look like mine. Is there any way to do this other than to take a screen shot of mine and simply recreate it using their log-in?
Thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

Sharing prefPane has the controls for setting up file sharing. Alxo, see Finder->Help->Sharing. IIRC, you need to enable File Sharing in each account.'
If the accounts are to be regular user accounts and not admin accounts, then you need to establish that withing your admin account and use parental controls. Once again, Help->Parental Controls should give you the details.
WRT to using the apps, unless you installed them only for the admin user account, all of them should be available. For the Dock, copy the com.apple.dock.plist in your home /Library/Preferences folder to their accounts, log into them, and set the ownership and permissions to match yours, drop it into their /Library/Preferences folder, log out and back in, and they should have what you have.