Hi Daniel, Has something changed in Lion? This is not quite how it works on my SL computers - what you describe is only applicable to my "Drop Box" folder within my public folder:
If I put an item in the main "Public" folder in my user folder then another connected computer user can access that file and copy it to their own computer. However other users cannot drop things into my main "Public" folder. Within my main "Public" folder is another folder called "Drop Box" (not to be confused with the "Dropbox" folder associated with the Dropbox cloudsynch app!). Other connected computer users can drop things into my "Drop Box" but they cannot see or otherwise access what is in there. The system throws up a warning to this effect when you go to drop an item in the "Drop Box" All this only applies, of course, if you have file sharing turned on. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 2/5/12 1:15 PM, Daniel Kerr at [email protected] wrote: > Hi Ian > > Also just to add on,... > If you are trying to access the "Public" folder itself, you can only drop > items into it, you can't actually open it and view. > ie on your machine you can drag files into your wife's iMac public and she can > view them and vice versa. But you can't actually open to view each others > "public" folder across the network. You can only view it on the machine. > > If you're sharing other folders then you will have full access, as long as you > long in with the correct username and password for the machine in question. > (ie you have to log in with the shortname (or fullname) and password for the > iMac if you're logging from the MacBookPro and vice versa. > > Hope that helps > > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > On 02/05/2012, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> On 02/05/2012, at 12:26 PM, Ian Reid wrote: >> >>> Good Afternoon All >>> >>> Since my wife and I have had separate computers we have been unable to >>> access each others Public folder. For both computers, "File Sharing" is on, >>> "Share files and folders using AFP" is on, although "number of users >>> connected " is 0. Connection is via a Netgear 54 mbps wireless ADSL2 + modem >>> router. Where are we going wrong? >>> >>> Snow Leopard on iMac and Lion on MacBook Pro. >> >> Hi Ian, >> >> You have the Firewall on in System Preferences on both computers? >> I have heard of AFP not working correctly in Lion for File Sharing. >> >> Try this first: >> A) >> 1. Leave your firewall activated. >> 2. Turn OFF AFP file sharing in the system preferences >> 3. Restart your Machine >> 4. Turn ON AFP file sharing >> 5. You should now get a message if you want to accept AFP connections... >> 6. Click YES >> >> Seems like this somehow resets the AFP permissions in the firewall settings >> >> If that does not fix you problem; try this: >> B) >> 1. Go to Preferences >> 2. Click on Sharing >> 3. Click on File Sharing on the left-hand side >> 4. Click the Options button >> 5. Uncheck ³Share files and folders using AFP² >> 6. Check ³Share files and folders using SMB (Windows)² >> 7. Click the Done button. >> >> At this point, you should be able to connect from the other machine. >> If you need to go in the other direction, perform these same steps on the >> other machine. >> >> Let's know how you get on please. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 ³Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.3 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
