Harddrive Sharing on Xserve

We have an Xserve (G5) running OS 10.3.7. We keep all server apps on the 80GB harddrive that came with the server and we are using a 250GB drive in bay 1 for storage.
We're running out of room on the 250GB drive and we have a second drive (500GB) in bay 2 that I am using Workgroup Manager to set up for sharing. Problem is the Group privileges for the 500GB drive are set to 'wheel' and anytime I start to change it, I get a message saying that changing it could lead to instability or inability to restart.
Does anyone know how to use Workgroup Manager to set up this second harddrive without compromising our system?
Many thanks in advance.

Hi
It's been some time but if I remember rightly WGM always presented a 'warning' prompt when changing permissions to something other than the default users and groups. 10.4 does the same. Dismiss the warning and continue defining the group you want and save the changes. You can always revert it back again. Just make sure you propagate permissions. Use the 'Copy these settings' option - I think? Like I said its been some time.
Just curious as to why 10.3.7? It should be OK for you to run Software Update and get the server up to 10.3.9 at least. If all the server is doing is simple file sharing it should be OK as I don't recall any issues with that particular update?
Tony

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