Running Services Through the Sharing Pane
The Sharing pane contains three tabbed panes shown in Figure 11-1 .
- Services
Lists several service daemons you can control.
Figure 11-1. The Sharing preference panel’s Services pane- Firewall
Contains controls for the system’s built-in firewall.
- Internet
Lets you enable/disable Internet sharing .
Every item in the Services list is visually paired with an On checkbox and is (behind the scenes) associated with a daemon program. Generally, when you check a checkbox, the related daemon launches; unchecking the checkbox kills the daemon, making the service unavailable. In some cases, the system service remains running in either state, but toggling the checkbox causes the system to rewrite its configuration file and then restart it.
- Personal File Sharing
When active, other computers can mount disks and folders on your filesystem via AFP. See the later section "File Sharing Services.”
- Windows Sharing
The same as Personal file sharing but uses the SMB protocol to share disks and folders, making access easier for users of Microsoft Windows machines—though other operating systems, including Mac OS X, can also mount SMB shares easily. See the later section "File Sharing Services.”
- Personal Web Sharing
Checking this launches the computer’s Apache web server. See the later section "Web Services.”
- Remote Login
Launches the Mac’s SSH server. See the later section ...
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