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Why can't networked Sharing be more logical and easier?
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It annoys how everything in the Sharing preferences tab is related directly to your home folder. Shouldn't there be an easier way to have guest sharing, or share just one folder?
When you enable Windows Sharing in the Sharing preference pane, it shares your entire home folder and you need your username/password to connect. What if I just wanted to share my Movies folder over the network with guest read-only access?
Is there an easier way to do this? 
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Originally Posted by macintologist
It annoys how everything in the Sharing preferences tab is related directly to your home folder. Shouldn't there be an easier way to have guest sharing, or share just one folder?
When you enable Windows Sharing in the Sharing preference pane, it shares your entire home folder and you need your username/password to connect. What if I just wanted to share my Movies folder over the network with guest read-only access?
Is there an easier way to do this?
Just create an alias of your Movie folder in your Public folder and enable sharing. When you login as guest, you only see the content of the Public folder...
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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You can set it up like you want by using samba. Steep learning curve though.
The next version of OS X is supposed to have more configurable file sharing with "Sharing accounts"
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Originally Posted by pat++
Just create an alias of your Movie folder in your Public folder and enable sharing. When you login as guest, you only see the content of the Public folder...
Aliases do not resolve on Windows machines.
At least, when I tried that, it simply didn't work.
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