Enable File Sharing via Workgroup Manager

Is there a way to Enable File Sharing and it's AFP and SMB options using Workgroup Manager? If not, can it be done through a command prompt? I several hundred Mac Notebooks and IMacs and I refuse to configure them manually.

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full thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2859843
"I answer my own question. I deleted the two files ".quota.ops.user" and ".quota.user" at the root level of each disks and now I can activate disk quota."

File sharing via Airport Snow

Hi all.
I have two Macs: (1) is an eMac connected via ethernet to an Airport Snow BS, which is in turn connected to the internet via ethernet. (2) is a MacBook that uses a wireless connection to the internet via the same Airport Snow BS.
My question is, why can't the two Macs see one another on the network? I need to file share between them.
Thank you!

Kmineks, Welcome to the discussion area!
Yes they can.
If you want the eMac to be visible to the MacBook, on the eMac go to System Preferences->Sharing preference pane and enable File Sharing.
On the MacBook use the Finder's G0->Connect to Server... command to find the eMac. Then from the MacBook log into the eMac using a valid eMac user's name and password.
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Hi, I am trying to connect a WD Mybook for Mac to my airport/time machine device. On the AirPort Utility it listed under Disks at 0 Mb. I enabled file sharing. But nothing happens. If I plug it directly into my MacBook it works fine. How do I fix it?

I am trying to connect a WD Mybook for Mac to my airport/time machine device. On the AirPort Utility it listed under Disks at 0 Mb. I enabled file sharing. And also followed all the steps - "secured disk access: with a disk passord", "Airport disk guest access: read and write", "Share disks over WAN". But nothing happens. If I plug it directly into my MacBook it works fine. How do I fix it? Also, its connected via a powered usb hub.

I assume that you are using Mac operating system 10.4.11, as your profile indicates.
The instructions that you referenced are for use with AirPort Utility....not AirPort Admin Utility.
Suggest that you download and install AirPort Utility 5.4.2 for Mac , which will run on 10.4.11.
Also noticed that the instructions do not tell you that the hard drive should be formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to work with the AirPort Extreme, but they should.

What do I need to do to the iPad to enable File Sharing?

I have a new iPad mini with retina display. I cannot make Sharing Files in iTunes work. All the apps that can share do show up in the File Sharing list, on the left. But if I click any one of them, nothing shows in the column on the right.
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iPad works the same.
Without using wifi and the Cloud Pages, Keynote and Artstudio will not stay in sync.   If you are not going to use wireless and the cloud you will have to constantly use "transfer purchases" each time to sync any changes on the mobile device back onto the computer, then sync the computer back to each mobile device.
This isn't a file sharing problem.   You are using devices designed to share via wifi and the cloud, but NOT using those features.
This will force you to constantly copy back and forth each time you make changes.
**You might want to check in Settings > Pages > turn iCloud switch to OFF (not green)   This may resolve moving back and forth with cables as the iPad will not expect to use iCloud.

Airport Shared disc & File Sharing, via Apache

I have a 500GB USB drive connected to AEBS.
No problem in using it normally, but I want to configure access so Apache can access the drive too.
(eg: I have Apache running & my local website has a page which links to my network drives, so I can access the files via the web browser)
For one drive this is already working, it is connected to AEBS via LAN cable.
For the USB Drive I get "403 Forbidden" when trying to access - I'm pretty sure this is due to Airport Utilities Drive Sharing setup.
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+Enable file sharing [ON],+
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+Disk Guest Access: [Read & Write]+
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+everyone [no access]+
& its not possible to change it.
The answer should be to just remove Airport's securing of the disc, but thats not an available option.
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Kmineks, Welcome to the discussion area!
Yes they can.
If you want the eMac to be visible to the MacBook, on the eMac go to System Preferences->Sharing preference pane and enable File Sharing.
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File sharing via bluetooth

How do I share files with other mobiles and with my PC using the bluetooth. When I try to send a browse my blackberry or send files from my Mac, I receive a message indicating "the device does not have the necessary services." I receive this same message when pair and try to exchange files with another mobile phone.

Hi habiba5,
We'd love to help you out, can you please elaborate your concern about file sharing via Bluetooth. Where you able to download the Bluetooth share app from Marketplace? What happened when you try to send a file using Bluetooth?
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Cannot enable file sharing

Hello,
I recently bought my ipad and since i want to use it for taking notes in class i bought the pages app from itunes. File sharing should be available for pages right? But i cannot enable file sharing in my ipad, there's no file sharing tab in the general settings. I have the latest 4.2.1 operating system and 10.1.2 version of itunes. How do i enable file sharing in my case? Or are there models of iPad that intentionally do not have the file sharing ability? Please help.

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4094

HT201514 Does "Enable file sharing" have to be enabled to use Time Machine?

Hi all,
Well the subject field asks my question: Does the "Enable file sharing" option have to be turned on in Airport utility -> Disk, if you want to use ur Time Capsule with Time Machine?
When "Enable file sharing" is unchecked, I can't find the time capsule in Time Machine, which makes me think, that it is the case.

I think that you have answered your own question.

I'm trying to share folder between users on a single mac. I put the folder in "shared," set permissions so other user can read and write, enabled file sharing, but can't find the folder on the second user's account. Any help?

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Did you log out of one account and into the other or just used Fast user switching?
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Enable AFP File Sharing via ARD through command line?

Anyone know how to enable AFP file sharing on a remote Leopard client using ARD? I had been sending Unix Commands to do most of my changes, but cannot figure out how to enable AFP file sharing through a unix command. I've tried running /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas?

Howdy, Space Ranger!
I'd recommend checking out the following documentation to get filesharing going without interrupting a current user.
Apple Remote Desktop Administrator’s Guide
http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD3_AdminGuide.pdf
Page 145:
Executing a Single UNIX Command
Using the UNIX Command window, you can send a single command to the selected
client computers. The command is executed using the bash shell.
To execute a single UNIX command:
1 Select a computer list in the Remote Desktop window.
2 Select one or more computers in the selected computer list.
3 Choose Manage > Send UNIX Command.
4 Type or paste the command.
If your command is a multi-line script, enter each command on its own line. If you want
to break up a single-line command for better readability, use a backslash (\) to begin a
new line.
5 Set the permissions used to execute the command.
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6 Click Send.
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Mac OS X Server Command-Line Administration
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacOSXSrvr10.3_CommandLineAdminGuide.pdf
Page 65:
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Best regards,
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Managing File Sharing via WGM

I can't see a way to do this, but I thought I might as well ask...
Is it possible to manage Sharing preferences from WGM? I want to ensure that users cannot turn on personal file sharing, but they have a need to be able to access the preference pane - so restricting it fro opening is not an option.
TIA

Hello Christopher.
I looked into this and opened my WGM. You can disable the whole "Sharing" tab from the preferences pane. You can do this setting for specific computers or computer groups or users / user groups. So open up WGM. Select one you like to set preferences to (user, group, computer/computer group), and select "Preferences" from the top menu bar. Then Select "System Preferences" from the list that opens to the middle right, and then select to manage "Always" or "Once". You see the list below of services that you wish your computer / user to grant access to. Then just uncheck all the services you want to be disabled for that computer /user, and hit Apply Now.
And you are all set! Was this helpful?
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File sharing via NFS - permissions problem? SOLVED

I'd like to share files between my two linux boxes, a desktop (DT) and a laptop (LT). DT runs Xandros 3, LT runs Arch. They are connected via a router.
NFS works all right, up to a point. Using NFS, I can access all filesystems on DT from LT but the reverse is not true. Arch on LT resides in two partitions, / and /home. From DT I can access all the directories in the root filesystem / of LT as well as their subdirectories, with two exceptions. I cannot access any subdirectories in /home, including my home dir /home/robert/ which doesn't even show up, and in /mnt I cannot access the filesystems of other Linux distros that are mounted in Arch at these mountpoints (e.g. WinXP at /mnt/sda2, Xandros 4 at /mnt/sda5, Slackware 11 at /mnt/sda7) even though they can be accessed perfectly well from within Arch on LT.
I've also exported the LT /home filesystem separately by adding the line '/home DT_hostname(rw)' in /etc/exports on LT, and running # mount LT_hostname:/home /mnt/LT_hostname_home on DT. When I do that /home/robert shows up in the file manager on DT but when I want to open this directory I get the error "Access denied". The permissions for this LT directory, as seen when mounted on DT, are 'drwx--x--x 1000 users'. When I try to make this directory fully accessible by running 'chmod a+rw /mnt/LT_hostname_home/robert' as root I get the error
'chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/LT_hostname_home/robert': Operation not permitted'.
In short, while Xandros on DT is quite permissive in allowing me to access all of its filesystems in their entirety from within Arch on LT, Arch on LT is more finicky as it denies access to Xandros on DT to some critical subdirectories.
I've also tried 'fish' in Konqueror, with similar results. Running 'fish://DT_hostname' in Arch on LT gives me full access to filesystems on DT but when I'm running 'fish://LT_hostname' on DT, I get the error 'Could not connect to host LT_hostname', i.e. Arch rejects the connection attempt.
To sum up, when I'm using NFS the permissions don't seem to be fully correct on Arch on LT, and I don't seem to be able to change them, and when I'm using 'fish' something is also fishy on the Arch side.
On a side note, both systems run firewalls (DT: Firestarter, LT: Arno's FW) which I had to stop - without doing that nothing connects. Also, both systems obviously run all necessary nfs and ssh daemons.
How can I fix this problem? Would shfs work any better? Also, I'd prefer to keep my firewalls up all the time.
Thanks for your help.
Robert

Thanks, FUBAR and tomk, for your tips. I eventually managed to get my two boxes (DT with Xandros and LT with Arch) connected in such a way that DT can access all filesystems on LT and vice versa. I experimented with three different ways of doing this, NFS, FISH and SHFS.
Using NFS entailed the most involved configuration of the three. FISH was the simplest to set up but SHFS wasn't that much more complicated. My preference would be for SHFS. See: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/
NFS
Using NFS in Arch only requires installing portmap and nfs-utils; most of the NFS functionality has already been compiled into the kernel. As FUBAR suspected, the uid's for user robert were different on the two machines: uid=1000 in Arch and uid=1001 in Xandros. In NFS, I got around that by putting 'no_root_squash' in the export directives in /etc/exports, i.e.
/ hostname_DT(rw,no_root_squash,subtree_check)
/home hostname_DT(rw,no_root_squash,subtree_check)
/mnt/sda5 hostname_DT(rw,no_root_squash,subtree_check)
/mnt/sda7 hostname_DT(rw,no_root_squash,subtree_check)
Using NFS, one also has to add lines in /etc/hosts.allow for each of the daemons and programs used by NFS, specifying which hosts are allowed to use these services, e.g. in my case for portmap
portmap: 192.168.0.5, 192.168.0.7 # you have to use IP addresses!
and the same for nsfd, nfslock, lockd, rquotad, mountd, statd, mount, umount. In Xandros, two of these have different names: rpc.nsfd and rpc.mountd.
Also, to use NFS in Arch one has to add the services portmap, nfslock, nfsd to the DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf, e.g. right after network. Finally, I have to stop the firewalls on both machines when I want to use NFS. After doing all of that, I can use Konqueror as user robert to access all filesystems on the respective server (DT or LT) from the other machine as a client except for /home/robert and /mnt/sda7/home/robert (that's a Slackware install) on LT; for these I have to use Konqueror as root on DT.
FISH
Using FISH is very simple. Remote filesystems don't have to be mounted, and the only thing that's required is that the sshd service is running on the file server. I.e. in Arch one has to install openssh and put the service sshd in the DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf. Firewalls must be stopped to set up the connection but once the connection is established it looks as though one can restart the firewalls.
One should also add a line in /etc/hosts.allow for the hosts that are allowed to use sshd, i.e.
sshd: 192.168.0.5, 192.168.0.7 (or sshd: ALL )
and comment out the line ALL: ALL: DENY in Arch's /etc/hosts.deny.
Once this is done, all that's needed to access the root filesystem of the server is to enter 'fish://root@hostname/' in the URL field of Konqueror as an ordinary user, followed by the root password.
The drawback of FISH is that one is frequently asked for the password but I suppose one can avoid that by using SSH keys.
SHFS
SHFS needs to be installed and configured on the client side, not on the server side. The server only needs to have a working sshd running. If you run Arch as a client, install shfs in it (pacman -S shfs) and make sure sshd is running on the server and firewalls are stopped.
Next, create a mount point for the remote filesystem, e.g.
# mkdir -p /mnt/shfs
Set the suid bit on /usr/bin/shfsmount and /usr/bin/shfsumount if you wish to enable all users to mount (umount) remote dirs using shfs. You can do this in Konqueror or by running
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/shfsmount
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/shfsumount
so that the permissions are: -rwsr-xr-x root root.
Then mount the remote shell filesystem:
# shfsmount root@remote_hostname:/ /mnt/shfs -o uid=robert
[or you can use # mount -t shfs root@remote_hostname:/ /mnt/shfs -o uid=robert]
Using the option -o uid=robert got me around the mismatch of uid's for robert on the two systems.
At the 'root@remote_hostname's password:' prompt enter root's password. You're ready then to access the remote filesystem as user robert at /mnt/shfs, even after the remote firewall is restarted.
As with FISH, so with SHFS, it seems to be necessary that a line is added in /etc/hosts.allow for the hosts that are allowed to use sshd, i.e.
sshd: 192.168.0.5, 192.168.0.7 (or sshd: ALL )
and that the line ALL: ALL: DENY in Arch's /etc/hosts.deny is commented out or removed.
I'm still a newbie with file sharing on Arch (and non-Arch Linux). Forgive me if the above comes across as somewhat amateurish.
Robert

Personal file sharing via a cable modem and AEBS

At home, my Internet access is provided by a Comcast cable modem. It used DHCP; however, the address I get assigned rarely changes. What I want to do is use my G5 and an external disk to back up files from my MBP while I travel.
I have a new AirPort Extreme Base Station which I use as my router. Is there any documentation available to download that tells me how to set up the AirPort base station to allow me to mount my G5's disks on my laptop when I travel? I know I need to enable personal file sharing, but how do I get the router to allow me to access my G5's disks from my hotel? I also want to access the disk drive that's connected to my AEBS remotely.
I can do this when I connect via my MBP to my AEBS wirelessly and it works great, but I don't know what to do on the AEBS to allow it to be done from anywhere.
Any tips will be appreciated.

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Enabling 'File Sharing' on my Mac allows my Macintosh HD and Boot Camp to be visible and writeable on my home network. How can I turn this off, so that only folders/files I share are visible?

So I've been trying recently to get my MacBook Pro connected to my home network. There are two other desktop computers in the household, and I'd like to be able to connect to their shared folders, as well as allow them to access shared items on my MacBook Pro. I think I've read all the documentation regarding this issue on the Apple Support site. I do have administrator privileges on my Windows 7 computer.
Issues connecting from PC to Mac
A couple of days ago, I enabled SMB File Sharing on my MacBook Pro, and in addition to the already shared Public folder, I added another that resides within Movies. Then I went to my Windows 7 PC, and under Network, my MacBook Pro appeared. I double-clicked on it (I cannot remember if I was asked to enter my Mac user credentials; I think I was), and I saw the two shared folders: Public, and the Movies folder.
However, today I went back to my Windows 7 PC, accessed my MacBook Pro, entered username and password, and in addition to the two shared folders, both my Macintosh HD and Boot Camp HD appeared as shared folders, both fully writable. However, under File Sharing on my MacBook Pro, only the two shared folders (Public and Movies) appear in the Shared Folders list.
How can I prevent my Mac from sharing my entire partitions? How can I configure it so thatonly the folders I select to share are actually broadcasted across my home network? Also, it would be ideal if I can access these shared folders from my Windows 7 PC without having to enter my Mac user credentials.
Issues connecting from Mac to PC
I have a user account on my Windows 7 PC with the same name as my Mac, but with no password. When I try to connect to my PC from my Mac, the enter credentials dialogue pops up and asks me to either log-in as a Guest, or enter my User credentials.
The Guest account is disabled on Windows 7, and I assume that's I'm not able to log in as Guest (if it is possible to connect as a Guest without having to enable the Guest account on Windows 7, please let me know). Leaving the password field blank on the enter credentials dialogue tells me that it's incorrect (even though I don't have a password on my Windows 7 account).
Is it possible to access shared files and folders on my Windows 7 PC from my Mac without having to create a password protected account? If not, is it possible to create a password for the sake of accessing shared files, while not requiring it to log in to the account? I'm sorry, I know this last bit more falls under the category of Windows Help.

Sharing files from a Mac to a PC is a different animal. I've never done it myself so you may want to repost a separate question on this topic.
From what I understand, in order to access files from a Mac on a PC, you must log in using your Mac username and password (no anonymous file sharing). Since this is not very desirable from a security standpoint, Apple recommends creating a separate user account on the Mac that is dedicated to file sharing. Give that account access only to the files/folders you want to share. You can then give that user account name and password to your Windows users.

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