fishyeah Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 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... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Hi there, download a little program called "SharePoints". It will allow you to configure your shares very easily. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/#findComment-403251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Woah, I didnot know this. Thanks Hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/#findComment-403482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyeah Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 It works great! Thanks a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/#findComment-405510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyeah Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share Posted July 23, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/#findComment-413580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
limok Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 ^^ thanks matey!! much needed info there Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56433-share-folders-other-than-users-home-directory/#findComment-413718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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