Josh,

Is there any reason you can't use a "Network Hard Drive" (sometimes called NAS)?  This makes the disk available to anyone with a valid login, and it can then be 
treated almost as if it was a local disk, and files copied to and from it as needed.  They are available with Windows/Mac/Linux sharing facilities.  I use Lacie, Iomega 
and WD drives - don't like the WD as they try to sell you a service to look after it, and I only wanted the hardware!  I share them all from Windows and OS/2, but I 
know the Lacie drives certainly have Mac sharing as an option (I have it turned off).

You may want to set the users' logins to Read Only if they only need copies and don't need to upload anything, to save someone using "Move" instead of "Copy" by 
accident.

Here are examples:  http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/range.htm?id=10007

They range from a single disk to RAID arrays, and some can also have USB-connected drives added, which is useful for backup and/or adding to the space available.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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