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Services:

Personal File Sharing

Enable guest access: Defines if guest users get access to your "Public" folder. Allow root login: Defines if the root user is allowed to login. Show Volumes to admin users: Defines that the mounted volumes are visible to admin users. Show Sharepoints to admin users: Defines that active Sharepoints are visible to admin users. Enable login greeting text: Define a greeting text that appears when someone is logging in. Activity log: Enable (View, Clean) the Apple File Service activity log. Access port: * Hide the service to network hackers by changing the AFS access port.

Personal Web Sharing

Web Server root documents: Defines the location of the web server's root documents. Web Server access log: View / Clean the web server's access log. Web Server error log: View / Clean the web server's error log. Access port: * Hide the service to hackers by changing the HTTP access port.

SSH, FTP, SMB

Remote Login (ssh): * Hide the service to hackers by changing the smb access port. FTP Access: * Hide the service to hackers by changing the ftp access port. Windows Sharing (smb): * Hide the service to hackers by changing the smb access port.

* If an access port is not the default one, the access IP must be followed by a colon and the "new" port number. E.g. if the access port is set to 1234, the access address could look like this: 192.168.0.2:1234. If you are running the Apple firewall (System Preferences: Sharing), it is recommended to choose the option "Adapt Apple Firewall rule", so that the proper port gets opened when starting the respective service.

All "Services" changes take effect after staring (restarting) the respective service, and so it is recommended to stop the service and quit "System Preferences" before manipulating its settings.

Share Points:

Create additional shared directories

Create additional shared directories (called Share Points) anywhere on your local volumes. Choose "Enable File Sharing access" if the Share Point should be visible via Personal File Sharing. Use "Modify permissions" to set the Share Point's folder permissions, and "Open in Finder" to browse its content.

New Share Points get active after restarting Personal File Sharing.

Firewall:

Configure the BSD firewall (ipfw)

The Xupport firewall may be used in two manners. Either replacing the Apple Firewall (System Preferences) with a complete firewall rule set ("Replace" should be checked), or as enhancement to the default Apple Firewall ("Replace should be un-checked"). In comparison to the apple firewall you are able to define "deny" and "out" rules, and enable the ipfw (IP firewall) log function. Because both, the apple firewall and the xupport firewall, use "ipfw", which is the standard software firewall of unix based systems, they work together perfectly. So you are able to use the standard ipfw rules from apple, and add specific rules in order to log network access or define deny-rules for certain ports or IPs.

Use the "Info" button to get examples for complete firewall rule sets, information about port numbers, services and protocols, and to read the system integrated IPFW manual.

Location of configuration files: Rule File: /etc/ipfwx.conf Startup Script: /Library/StartupItems/XupportFirewall

When additional rules are active, the apple firewall interface (System Preferences) is not editable. Stop the Xupport firewall in order to edit or add rules using apples firewall interface.