Can you share to other users on the same machine?

If I have 2 users on the same machine, and I log in with one user, open iTunes, then swich user and bring up iTunes. Will the second user see the shared shongs from the first user?
Thanks,
Alfredo

Here is what I did:
1. Create new user account.
2. Open iTunes
3. Set preferences to NOT copy files over on an import.
4. Set the location for my music library to the "Public" folder (created an iTunes folder in there and pointed to it).
5. Selected "Add to Library" and selected the top level folder where my songs are (an mp3 folder on my firewire drive)
6. Since my son had some songs of his own that he exported from Garageband, I went back the the preferences and checked the "copy files on import", then selected "Add to Library" on those files. NOTE: if you do this, you may want to exclude that directory in step 5 above.
The reason I used Public/iTunes as the output folder, was so other account could import those files to their iTunes in the future.
Alfredo

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The result is, that all directories and files I create with my account (Admin user) are readable to every other user on the machine, whereas all directories and files the other user (Standard user) creates are not readable for anyone else. I can easily rectify this using the Terminal and chmod and/or chown, but it is a pain having to do this, since I also need to forcefully restart the Finder App for it to notice the changed permissions.
Ideally I'd like all directories in /Users/Shared to have permissions 777 and all files 666 no matter which user created, copied or moved them to said location. I think this could possibly be done using applescript and shellscripting and the folder action hook. So far my attempts to find such a script on the net or/and write it myself have failed. I'd be grateful for any hints how I:
a) write and setup such a script
b) accomplish what I try to do (share files and folders on the same machine) in another possibly more Mac way
Kind regards
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The following AppleScript will recursively descend the directory tree and change the items to your modes:
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title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with some_item in these_items
ProcessStuff from some_item
end repeat
end adding folder items to
to ProcessStuff from SomeItem
processes items contained in SomeItem, recursively descending the directory tree
parameters - SomeItem [mixed]: an item containing the items to process
returns nothing
set SomeItem to SomeItem as text
set FileInfo to (info for SomeItem as alias)
if (folder of FileInfo) and not (package folder of FileInfo) then -- a folder (not a package)
do shell script "chmod 666 " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem
-- do shell script "chown root:staff " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem user name "me" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges
try -- to get items in the folder
tell application "Finder" to set SubFolder to (items of folder SomeItem)
on error
return {}
end try
repeat with SubItem in SubFolder -- process the sub items
ProcessStuff from SubItem
end repeat
else -- a file
do shell script "chmod 777 " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem
-- do shell script "chown root:staff " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem user name "me" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges
end if
return
end ProcessStuff
</pre>
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I haven't been able to find any info about this, but does home sharing allow you to share files between to different user accounts on the same computer? I have been struggling with trying to do this for years, and I'm really hoping this solves my problem.

This is true in a sense; you have to use the same itunes account to activate home sharing. BUT, you don't need to use the same itunes account for general use.
Example:
My computer and iPhone has one itunes account.
My wife's computer and iPhone have a totally separate account.
I turned on Home Sharing on both machines using one account name and ID - mine.
Now she can see and copy my music and apps, etc. I can see and copy her music, apps, etc.
However, when she goes to the iTunes store, she still can buy and so forth *on her own account*. Same with her iPhone. And I can still do the same as well on my own account on my machine and phone.
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HT3819 how can i share itunes with users on the same computer?

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on the left there is a check box for "file Sharing" check this box.
to the right you can add folders, add "iTunes Media"
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open their iTunes>Prefrences>Advanced. Uncheck the box that says "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library"
then open Finder and the shared iTunes Media folder should be on the left... (fingers crossed)
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hassle, but it's what i do.
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Sharing a folder with other users on the same machine (SOLVED)

Hi,
Recently, I've been sharing my computer with my dad. I don't want him to use my account, since I have a lot of secret files and bookmarks on my profile. However, I would like to share all my music with him. What I did was to set the permission of my Music directory to 777 and using root create a symbolic link from my own account to his account. But then when I log into his account, it says the folder is corrupt.
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Note that, since I use Amarok, I don't want to move my Music to somewhere else, because it will mess up with the database info of songs.
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You have to issue the following command:
mount --bind /home/name/music /media/music/
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Last edited by mohtasham1983 (2009-11-05 22:06:03)

grey wrote:If I wanted to share it between different users, I wouldn't put it inside one particular users home directory. Just use a reasonable place that is not used by the system, like /usr/local/data, /var/shared or so, give it the desired permissions and that's it.
you are absolutely right and i recommend this as well.
grey wrote:The link will probably not work, because in order to read /home/yourname/music, you need to be able to read /home/yourname. That is even true if root created the link.
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