First, make a folder called “Pub” at the root level of your hard disk and copy any files or folders you want to make available via Gopher, Web, and/or Anonymous FTP into this folder. Make sure System 7’s File Sharing is enabled in the Sharing Setup control panel. Now select the “Pub” folder and choose Sharing… from the File menu. Turn on “Share this item and its contents” and “Make all currently enclosed folders like this one”, make the Owner whoever you expect to maintain the site, and give them all privileges and set the rest to See Files and See Folders but not Make Changes. Close the window and save the changes.
You would do well to avoid having names with spaces in the “Pub” folder, since they are sometimes difficult for FTP users to deal with.
Make sure all users on the Mac have good passwords.
Setup NetPresenz
Now run NetPresenz Setup. Close the About window.
Click the FTP Setup button, and give Guests Read Only privs in the popup. Give Users and Owner whatever access you want them to have. If you enable remote mounting, FTP users will be able to mount any AppleShare servers on your network (assuming they know a username & password or can log in as guests) so be very careful using this option. Click the Save button.
Click the Gopher Setup button. Enable Gopher, and type “/Pub” into the Root Directory field. Click the Save button.
Click the WWW Setup button, enable WWW and type “/Pub” into the Root Directory field. Click the Save button. Write an HTML file called “index.html” and put it in your Pub folder.
Click the Summary button and check that there are no problems. Click the line that says NetPresenz is not running to start it.
Quit NetPresenz Setup.
Try it out
You should now be able to Web, FTP or Gopher to your Mac. Grab a copy of TurboGopher, Fetch, Anarchie, MacWeb or Netscape and try it out.
To log in, you must have File Sharing enabled (Sharing Setup), the user must be able to log in (Users & Groups), at least one folder must be shared (Finder’s Sharing menu), and logins must be enabled in NetPresenz Setup.
If you can’t log in, check the Summary window in NetPresenz Setup - that is what it’s there for!
Hopefully that has your site up and running, if you want to tweak it, read the other documentation files.
If all is well, make an alias to NetPresenz and put it in the Startup Items folder in the System Folder.
