Network

File Sharing

Cocktail's file sharing section provides advanced settings that are only available in Mac OS X Server. All settings except for TCP Port changes in the server section are enabled immdeiately. To update the TCP port setting file sharing has to be restarted, this can be done using the Sharing preference pane found in System Preferences.

Client

With Cocktail you can configure if Mac OS X should be allowed to send passwords in clear text over the network. If you allow sending passwords in clear text you can choose to be warned when this occurs.

With Cocktail you can set the login dialog's Name field to be populated with one of the following:

Server

You can set the following in the server section of file sharing.

You can change how often log file should be archived. A more frequent time will reduce the size of the log files. Cocktail also allows you to set a greeting presented when a user logs in. You can specify to send the greeting only once for non-guest users.