share folders other than user's home directory

[fishyeah]

Could anybody help with sharing OS X folders other than user's home directory? The default behaviour of OS X is sharing a user's home directory for other computer to access.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Sorry it's on a wrong list, but I can't move it...

[hecker]

Hi there,

 

download a little program called "SharePoints". It will allow you to configure your shares very easily.

 

Cheers,

 

hecker

[U.C.]

Woah, I didnot know this.

 

Thanks Hecker

[fishyeah]

It works great!

Thanks a lot!

[fishyeah]

After playing with SharePoints for a while. I found it has problem with sharing automounted NTFS partition: sometimes a directory become a 0-byte-sized file and cannot be accessed at a remote Windows machine when mapped as a network drive - it's not always the case - it changes from time to time when remapped.

 

However, I found a more simple solution to sharing directories/files: create a soft link to the directory you want to share under your home directory. When you share your home directory (default share), the link resolves to the target directory at the remote machine. You can create as many soft links as you like to share different directories. I just put all the such links under ~/share/.

 

Example:

ln -s /Volumes/Backup/Videos/ ~/share/videos

In the above case, Backup is an NTFS partition, share is a directory created under your home directory.

[limok]

^^ thanks matey!! much needed info there