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Smbup configuration for mac#

Smbup configuration for mac#

Since there doesn’t seem to be much help out there for mac users so far, I decided to write this guide.

I tried to get SMB sharing working with WiiMC a few months ago but failed miserably, but I have managed to get it up and running this time round. This 'resets' Apple's native Netbios processes. 2.-Go to Network -> Advanced -> WINS: Modify your machine name twice and apply. And re-enable the access (uncheck and check the checkbox twice, to make sure). I wrote this step-by-step while setting it up again at the same time to make sure nothing was left out, so this guide should be all correct and get most people’s sharing problems sorted, chaos theory aside. 1.-Go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Windows File Sharing. If anyone has any questions, I will be happy to assist, although I am no expert. – Check the box marked ‘File Sharing’ and add any folders you wish to share in the first panel. Ensure the current user has full read/write access. Check the box marked ‘Share files and folders using SMB (Windows), Then also check the box for the current user. – Click on options (the gears icon), then click ‘Network’ and ‘Add SMB Share’ – Make a note of the IP address under ‘File Sharing: On’ e.g. – Share IP should be the IP address of your Mac on the network that you took a note of previously – Display name can be whatever you like to identify each shared folder, (i.e. you don’t need to enter a capital ‘M’ if the shared folder is called ‘Movies’ – Share name is the name of the shared folder that you added on the Mac side. – Username and password has to be the same as specified on the Mac when you added SMB sharing. Username is not case-sensitive but the password is. Now exit out of the settings menu and your new network share should be there. This guide did not got me running on OSX Lion (10.7).

Smbup configuration how to#

I found this great tutorial on how to set things right. Path = '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/theuser/Public' # CHANGE YOURHARDDRIVE TO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND CHECK THE PATH IS CORRECT # ** Configuration file for Samba SMB server ** The following is a preview of my “smb.conf” file (located at “/localhost/opt/local/etc/samba3/”): In addition to this tutorial, I had to change security=share and guest account = nobody in the global section and public = yes and guest ok = yes in my share section.

If you want it secured by user, consult Dr. Thought of that, can’t add any individual folders from the drive. In case it matters, when I use “Get Info” on the drive and view its properties, its permissions say “Everyone – No Access”. I’m going to post about this sharing issue in the Apple support forums as well, see if anyone there has any ideas. Between the two communities we should figure it out!ĮDIT: hah, got it to work! Not sure if I’d call this a workaround, or an exploit, or what I created a test folder with a couple mp3s in it first, but once it worked, I did it to the whole drive.