Setting up a shared drive

How do you set up a external shared drive for a home network? I have a 1TB external and a 2 TB time capsule. I have a 24" IMAC wich has my Recording Studio soft ware on it. (Pro Tools, Logic Studio) running snow lepoard. I have a 21.5" IMAC which is my main surf the net and do some work desktop running Lion, and I have a 17" Macbook Pro for portability which means mostly laying in bed and surfing the web running Lion. 13" Macbook running Lion. Sony Viao 17" Laptop running Vista. Also have the IPhone 4S. Here are some of the things I would like to do.
1.   Share photos, have a large suppository where the photo files can be accessed by any of the machines using Picassa (or suggest a better program that works with mac & pc)
2.   Share applications between the IMAC and MACBOOK PRO.
3.   Monitor the activities of the 13" Macbook
4.   Share printers
5.   Back up all to the Time Capsule
Does this need to be 5 seperate questions?

That is an easy question!!!! you know you can just make her a adminastrator and talk to her about not deleteing bad songs. That is an easier way to do it.
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When setting up the shared drive on my other macs I have to input the computer name and password. Does this prevent anyone else from accessing the computers and drives?
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I ended up splitting the drive into two partitions. One is shared through the Server Preferences using Time Machine. The other is used locally to backup the server itself. No more problems of extended preparing stage. I think it was doing that because the server detected changes to the drive when other backups were made, and it was just checking for changes.

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For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.

URL action to open PDF on a shared drive with credentials

I am using "Go to URL" feature of SSRS 2008 to open a PDF file saved on a shared drive. It works fine for me as I have access to the drive.
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AY

Hi AY,
As far as I know, we cannot pass generic credentials with URL. In your case, we can set permissions for Shared Drive to work around the issue. It is assign permission to specific user on the network.
These articles are about Give Permissions to a Shared Drive, Set Permissions for Shared Folders, you can refer to it.
http://www.ehow.com/how_6187022_give-permissions-shared-drive.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc726004.aspx
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In Settings\iCloud Don't See "upgrade to iCloud drive" or "set up family sharing"

I would like to use family sharing. We have iOS8, but in Settings\iCloud we don't see "upgrade to iCloud drive" or "set up family sharing". I am unsure what else to do. I searched support, but they all see to assume we can see these settings.
Help!

Hi wmcknigh,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The article below should help you resolve the issue with shared content not appearing after setting up Family sharing on the MacBook Pros.
If you don't see your family's shared content - Apple Support
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I am working on a MacBook Pro - connects to a wireless network via airport extreme but can't seem to connect my G4 tower as a shared drive. I have the USB connecting the two but can't locate. Please help....

Sorry but your post isn't clear.
Are you trying to share a drive which is connected directly to the Power Mac G4?
I have the USB connecting the two but can't locate.
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I have a few questions:
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Update: Downloaded free version of Syncopation, and am hopeful this is going to some what solve my iTunes issue.
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I normally have a Firewall enabled. I recently had to do an erase and install of Lion, followed by a one-by-one re-install of all of my software. One of the first things I did was to set up all of my System Preferences the way I like them; Turning the Firewall on was one of them. Later I noticed it was off and turned it on again. I had already set up sharing and was surprised to see the problem when I turned it back on.
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How do I set up my USB drive to work on airport

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Hello community,
the following situation:
I have an iMac and a MacBook Air, both running Mountain Lion.
Both use FileVault 2 encryption of the whole MacOS partition.
The iMac is connected to an external USB hard drive, which I use as Time Machine volume. I've set up Time Machine to encrypt the backups on the external volume (it took abou 2 days until the whole drive was encrypted).
So far no problems. No let's get to the tricky part.
I want to the MacBook to use the same USB drive for its Time Machine backups. However I don't want to connect the volume directly via USB. Instead I have shared the USB volume on the iMac. And now I want to use this shared drive as my backup drive in the MacBook. (Hint: I want to use the same partition both for the iMac backups as well as for the MacBook backups.)
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meistermilchreis wrote:
(Hint: I want to use the same partition both for the iMac backups as well as for the MacBook backups.)
That's usually not a good idea; for best results, they should be in separate partitions. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #4 for an explanation, and #22 for setup instructions.
I can mount and select the drive on the MacBook. However Time Machine on the MacBook asks me, if I want to envrypt the backups. Which of course I want to do. But the USB drive and therefore the entire mounted volume is already encrypted (from the iMac).
Backups made over a network are placed in a sparse bundle disk image, separate from the backups made directly. The disk image is like a disk-within-a-disk; it has it's own partition map scheme and format. So it will not be encrypted unless you tell TM to do so.
In short: I want both Macs to backup to the same drive. And I want both to encrypt the backups (with the same password).
Since the backups are separate, they must be encrypted separately. You may use the same password for both if you want.

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How to set an attached USB drive to automatic sleep using Airdisk?

Greetings all!
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Hello Andy,
Thanks for your reply.
1. For using Microsoft Outlook rules, we need to keep the computer on, even after work or the colleague is on leave. That is not allowed in my company.
2. For sending an auto-reply email based on subject, that is impossible because the emails from customers are different and we don't have a basic standard.
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when I create PDF using Adobe Live Cycle, always it sends PDF as an email to the creator and then user has to save it the shared drive. Is there a way to directly save the file instead of sending as email through SMTP?
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