If like me you have a hi-tech family with a mixture of Windoze, MACs, iPads etc you can use ‘users’ and ‘group’ to lock down who has access to what.
Example;
- I have read/write access to the family photos directory (share), my kids have read-only.
- Using a ‘family’ group containing everyone I give access to a ‘family’ directory (share) with read/write access.
- Each family member’s own ‘home’ directory (mapped on whichever device they login to) is only accessible by them.
- Default access for the ‘music’ share is read-only, except by admin who serves the iTunes server.
- etc
Don't make it too complicated but you get the picture :-)