Decide how information will be shared and what groups you may want to create. When setting up privileges for folders on the server, you grant privileges by either user name or group name. Names are not case sensitive, but do not use spaces or special characters, like brackets, slashes, or quotes, in Internet aliases. A password for each user. For simplicity, you can make this their first name, and then require them to change it to something unique on their first login.
Passwords are case sensitive .
Your AppleShare IP serial number. This is located on the CD jacket on an adhesive that can be stuck on to the manual cover for safe keeping. If upgrading from an earlier version of Appleshare IP 5.x or AppleShare 4.x, you use the same serial number that came with that product.