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Sharing FAT32 drive through network - can macs do this?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Hi,
I have a mac mini media centre with an external USD FAT32 drive containing all my TV shows.
How can I access this same drive though my MacBook Pro on the same network without reformatting it to HFS+?
I found this but I am new to the terminal and a bit confused, if someone can explain it to me it would be great.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...90216180227216
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I'm not sure what's confusing you about that article - it's pretty clear cut,
Open up Terminal.
Type sudo pico /etc/smb.conf.
Enter your OS X password when prompted.
Enter the following at the end of the file (just keep hitting the down arrow until you reach the bottom of it):
[MyFatShare]
path =/Volumes/myfat32hd
public=yes
writable=yes
browseable = yes
only guest=yes
(/Volumes/myfat32hd is your FAT32 drive)
Hit ctrl+x to save the file.
Press y when Pico asks if you want to overwrite the existing file,
Open up System Preferences, click on Sharing, and make sure Windows File Sharing is enabled.
There you go.
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It looks like there's an extraneous space between "path" and the "=" sign.
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Huh...Looks like it. I just cut and pasted that from the OP's link. Would that cause a problem?
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Well, I'm not a programmer, but in most things computerese syntax, a well-placed space seems to be the difference between "works" and "breaks", at best (as likely in this case), and the difference between "works" and "OMFGIT'SALLGONE!" at worst (say when rm -rf'ing some little file somewhere).
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yay it works, I have to connect to smb://10.0.1.2/MOVIES
I wish it could appear in the sidebar automatically, but never mind.
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