Ok, thanks. I need to give access to a couple of external drives so my husband can access my movies folders on his mac. Cait
On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > By default when you connect to filesharing on another Mac you get a virtual > drive which has access to all the folders in your home directory. In other > words, the default is when I connect to another Mac I get access to > everything /Users/cblouch on that machine. So unless you need access to some > other place you shouldn't need to manually add any additional shares, > although that is certainly doable. Short answer is no, you don't share files, > you share folders and anything inside that shared folder. > > CB > > On 1/14/14 1:48 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: >> do I have to share individual files, or can I give permission to share an >> entire folder at once? >> >> thanks! >> Caitlyn >> >> On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When I connect to another Mac I bring up the Network (command-K) and tab to >>> Browse, hit space, then I get a list of networked computers. From there I >>> up/down arrow through the finder network table list to find the machine I >>> want to connect to. After that I hit Command-O on the machine which will >>> connect me as a Guest and I can arrow through the Finder server list of >>> sharepoints. If I don't want to connect as a guest I have to VO-left once >>> to get to the Connect As… button and VO-space on that to get a login >>> dialog. After authenticating I'm dropped back but the Connect As… has >>> turned into a Disconnect button. If I then VO-Right once I'm back to the >>> table of sharepoints but in addition to the public folder there are also >>> shares for my account folder and, since I'm the admin on that box, the >>> Macintosh HD. So if I arrow up to my cblouch sharepoint and hit command-O >>> it mounts that on my desktop and drops me into a window showing the >>> contents of that share. This is all on OSX 10.8 so hopefully it rhymes a >>> lot if you're on something else. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 1/6/14 11:45 AM, Bill Holton wrote: >>>> Hi. >>>> I can see my second Mini on the shift-command-k network menu, but I cannot >>>> access it. I tried highlighting the computer name and pressing command-o, >>>> left clicking, right clicking, pressing enter and doubletapping my >>>> trackpad. Anyone with suggestions, thanks much. >>>> Bill >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
