Sharing Folders in OSX

I'm a new Mac user. I am in a simple network with a few other Macs. On one Mac, I have enabled file sharing and have edited the Public folder so that everyone has Read & Write. When I manually connect to the folder from the other PC's as Guest, I am able to do all that I want. But what I need is for the folder to Automount on startup. When I drag the mount to the "Login Items" under the user accounts and reboot, I get this message, "Connection Failed."
Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi, I have a PPC Running OSX 10.5.4 and I want to delete the User "Guest"and "Shared"Folders on my HD, they won't let me change the permissions and I keep getting errors that say the permissions should be 0 and are 501 and having files i can't delete that

Hi, I have a PPC Running OSX 10.5.4 and I want to delete the User "Guest"and "Shared"Folders on my HD, they won't let me change the permissions and I keep getting errors that say the permissions should be 0 and are 501 and having files i can't delete that go on and on ad infinitum... I think it's a virus or a corruption? Can anyone tell me or help me and let me know what I'm dealing with here or wether I'm mistaken and should leave it alone?
I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Matt

mattmakesvidiots wrote:
Hi, I have a PPC Running OSX 10.5.4 and I want to delete the User "Guest"and "Shared"Folders on my HD
Why do you want to delete those? What have you done so far to do that?
I doubt that Mac has a virus. On the other hand, your attempts to deleted those folders may have caused corruption.
Two other comments:
1) Is there a reason that Mac hasn't been updated to OS X 10.5.8?
2) You've been misled by the poor field labeling on this Web site into trying to type your entire post into the "subject" field. In the future, just put a short summary of your post into that field.

Upgraded 2 macs to Mavericks, can no longer access shared folders/files.

So I upgraded my Macbook Pro, and Mac Mini to Mavericks today, and previously when they were both on mountain lion I could access the shared folders/files and screen share with absolutely no issue whatsoever.
But upon updating to Mavericks today it all broke.
Both computers were running the OS X Server software on Mountain Lion, and I went ahead and purchased/installed the new edition of server that came out today.
I can see the other mac under the "Shared" option in Finder's sidebar, but when I try to open the other mac it says connection failed and offers to "connect as"
As I usually do, I connect as and it asks for the login credentials. I put in the same credentials as before, 150% sure they're right, in the text boxes that I used before, but it won't allow me to connect to the mac.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they're the right credentials.
I thought it may have been just a wonky permissions error so I unshared the folders and reshared using the same permissions that had worked before.
I've been working on it for about 3 hours now so any help would be appreciated.

I upgraded my two machines - now when I access files on the "shared" storage array (a thunderbolt, pegasus array) across the network (ethernet) if I modify the file (for instance, a jpg) and then go to save I get a "you don't have permissions to etc...." and then when I just close the file without saving - it disappears from my file server permanently! even if I go to the machine hooked up to the array the file is "gone" - unbelievable. I have updated permissions where I can, deleted and added the sharing for users, tried SMB and AFP, and even downgraded the "sharing" machine back to OSX 10.8 where it was working fine but the client machine still is doing this where it can connect, see all the files, but as soon as I modify a file I get the warning and bam, it's gone forever....
Wow - this is a doozy. I don't have a fix but WARNING - watch out as you are working on this problem that your files are being vanished permanently.

Open Directory and connection to shared folders fail

Hi,
For testing i've setup an Open Directory Master (Leopard server 10.5.2) with shared folders and portable home directories.
Login and synhronizing works as it should. But once logged in, when i click on the server in finder i just get connection failed. When i choose "connect as" and log in as the same user and password as authenticated at the login to the computer (authenticated to OD) it works.
I thought it should work like a single sign on?
Any clues?

Hi
If you browse the discussion forum you should find this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1251475&tstart=0
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Can't remove standard shared folders

Hello,
i'm using a MacBook Late 2007 since it came out in 2007. I updated to Lion through the AppStore, but a lot of different bugs moved me to wipe my disk and to freshly install OSX 10.7.2 Lion from online source.
Today i tried to disable the sharing of the standard public folders of each user account (I have 3 user accounts: admin, my girlfriend and me). I am logged in as User (me), go to system preferences, sharing, file sharing. Click the lock symbol, login as admin. Than i click the minus symbol, but nothing happens.
Next thing i tried: I went to the shared folders directly, marked them and pressed CMD+i. The information window popped up. A little blue check mark tells me, that the folder is shared. I click on this check mark, but nothing happens. The check mark is not going away.
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Now, i disabled the filesharing completely. Does anybody has a similar problem since Lion or a solution for this problem?
Thank you in advance.

Here a possible solution: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showpost.php?s=3b80bad0740427705a356d119369449a&p =1925315&postcount=4
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Syncing two shared folders

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I would like for any change made on a file on either west or east server in specified directories to be recplicated to the other side.
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Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (64bit) shared folders no longer work with Windows 7 Pro but do work with WindowsXP & Windows 2003

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Ok, now you're down to network or permissions issues. An unedited ipconfig /all
of server and problem workstation may help. You could also try setting up some auditing.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn311489.aspx
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
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My Macbook Air does not show up on my network to any of my other computers, Other computers on my network appear and disappear, some shared folders are not accessible

My Macbook Air with Lion does not show up on my network to any of my other computers (PC's) , even though it is connected to my wifi and does access the Internet. In addition, my other computers sometimes show up in Finder and sometimes they're not there. Sometimes they do show in Finder and when I click on them, I get "Connection Failed", other times, they connect. Also some shared folders on those other computers, which are PC's are not accessible, even though fully shared. My network is Apple Airport Extreme and works perfectly otherwise, including all PC's being able to see each other. Help would be much appreciated

I got the same problem. I want to access my shared folder on my home windows7 from my MBA. Tried many suggestions on the web but all to no avail. I thought that should be very trivial. Maybe a Lion bug?

I can't use shared folders feature in VMware

Arch Linux is the guest system. Windows 7 is the host OS. I'm using VMware Workstation 10.0.1. After installing vmware tools (the original ones) I can't mount my shared folder. It says
~ mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device
I've already searched the forum but I didn't find any solution to my problem.
[Update]
I think that it has something to do with the fact that vmware module sources are not compatible with the new UID and GID types:
uid_t -> kuid_t
gid_t -> kgid_t
I admit that I have no idea about patching sources. I've found this thread. It helped me with patching the vmhgfs module. Unfortunately the vmci module is still failing to compile because it's not patched yet. I have no idea how to fix this problem.
[Workaround]
Well I gave up. I've chosen the easiest way - Samba.
Additional information:
~ lsmod |grep -i vm
kvm_intel 134316 0
kvm 419974 1 kvm_intel
vmw_balloon 6258 0
vmwgfx 167331 2
ttm 66913 1 vmwgfx
vmw_vmci 53487 0
drm 242043 3 ttm,vmwgfx
~ vmware-hgfsclient
E
~ vmware-config-tools.pl
Initializing...
Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.
Stopping Thinprint services in the virtual machine:
Stopping Virtual Printing daemon: done
Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: done
Unmounting HGFS shares: done
Guest filesystem driver: done
sh: : command not found
sh: : command not found
Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed...
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gcc
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Detected GCC binary at "/bin/gcc".
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Searching for a valid kernel header path...
Detected the kernel headers at "/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/include".
The path "/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/include" appears to be a valid path
to the 3.14.3-2-ARCH kernel headers.
Would you like to change it? [no]
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build'
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c:57:0:
/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/./shared/vm_assert.h:259:0: warning: "DEPRECATED" redefined
#define DEPRECATED(_fix) do {} while (0)
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:5,
from include/linux/preempt.h:18,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from include/linux/mmzone.h:7,
from include/linux/gfp.h:5,
from include/linux/mm.h:9,
from /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c:38:
include/linux/printk.h:96:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/./shared/vmware.h:39:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:62:
/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/./shared/vm_assert.h:259:0: warning: "DEPRECATED" redefined
#define DEPRECATED(_fix) do {} while (0)
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
from /tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:24:
include/linux/printk.h:96:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "
^
/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:740:12: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘VMCIHostUser’ from type ‘kuid_t’
user = current_uid();
^
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1274: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build'
Makefile:130: recipe for target 'vmci.ko' failed
make: *** [vmci.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-jMh2Db/vmci-only'
The communication service is used in addition to the standard communication
between the guest and the host. The rest of the software provided by VMware
Tools is designed to work independently of this feature.
If you wish to have the VMCI feature, you can install the driver by running
vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make and the
kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine. These
packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build'
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/./shared/vmware.h:39:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:62:
/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/./shared/vm_assert.h:259:0: warning: "DEPRECATED" redefined
#define DEPRECATED(_fix) do {} while (0)
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
from /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:24:
include/linux/printk.h:96:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c:57:0:
/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/./shared/vm_assert.h:259:0: warning: "DEPRECATED" redefined
#define DEPRECATED(_fix) do {} while (0)
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
from /usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:5,
from include/linux/preempt.h:18,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from include/linux/mmzone.h:7,
from include/linux/gfp.h:5,
from include/linux/mm.h:9,
from /tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c:38:
include/linux/printk.h:96:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "
^
/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:740:12: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘VMCIHostUser’ from type ‘kuid_t’
user = current_uid();
^
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1274: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.3-2-ARCH/build'
Makefile:130: recipe for target 'vmci.ko' failed
make: *** [vmci.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-paCEZs/vmci-only'
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Last edited by Skitter (2014-05-14 16:51:50)

Hi.
I managed to compile open-vm-tools and the kernel module against 3.14.5 kernel. Here is the tarball with the all the files.
I still have an issue : With vmware-player 6.0.2, I can't acces my shared folder :
root@P146S011b ~ # lsmod | grep hgfs
vmhgfs 41622 0
vmw_vmci 47960 2 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport,vmhgfs
root@P146S011b ~ # vmware-hgfsclient
R
D
C
root@P146S011b ~ # mount -t vmhgfs .host:/R /mnt
Could not add entry to mtab, continuing
root@P146S011b ~ # tail -1 /etc/mtab
.host:/R /mnt vmhgfs rw,relatime 0 0
root@P146S011b ~ # cd /mnt
cd:cd:6: not a directory: /mnt
1 root@P146S011b ~ #
Forgot to add an install file with a depmod -a inside. You will have to run it by yourself

What happens to shared folders/mail when I disable/remove a mailbox in Exch2010 and which is better to get space back?

We have a number of old mailboxes taking up room. The users are long gone and I looked into removing them. The clients of these users have been moved to others. The users had shared folders that held this info. I have a few questions
about the removal.
1. Is there a difference in time before space is given back if I disable versus remove the user in EMC?
2. If an ex-employee had folders that others are sharing, what happens when I do the remove/disable? Will the folders still be out there on the people who had it shared or will it vanish from them too?
Thanks for your help.

"Best practice" is going to be defined by each company. I worked for Microsoft for 13.5 years, assisting over 100 large companies deploy either Windows or Exchange, and none had the same definition for their "best practice".
If you need access to a mailbox for a time period, you figure out a way to keep it. If you want any terminated employee's mailbox gone tomorrow, it is gone tomorrow.
I am a fan of having some sort of process that runs periodically to clear out unnecessary mailboxes and accounts, but if there are business reasons for keeping them around, that needs to be defined into the process. In my current company, terminated
accounts are kept for 30 days, mailbox included. We give mailbox access to a different employee if required and tell them that if they need anything, they need to pull it into their own mailbox. Then, when the account disappears, the mailbox goes
into the dumpster. So, if someone forgot to pull a message, they tell their boss and live with the consequences.
But again, that's just another example of how it might be handled. You get to define what will work for you, including pulling your business units in to help with the definition.

Shared Folders in mail

I'm running a OS X Leopard Server mail server. Since a few days a folder called "Shared Folders" appeared in all mailboxes. Within this shared folders folder there are several folders with strange names:
._-Dong-seeiuqi
._-Jolie-seignora
.-seer1990
._-seetrus2005
.-seeun1990
._-seiklab
There are now users with these names on my server. I would like to know how this could happen and what it is, and eventually how to remove them.

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Sharing folders for 2 users on the same mac

Hey
I have a Vista Virtual Machine (VM) created in VMware fusion and it is stored on a partition on my Bay 2 HDD in my mac pro. it all runs fine when i log in since i am the admin on the box.
I created a Standard user account for my wife. I want my wife to open up VMware Fusion and launch the Vista VM as she pleases to do her work under her account. So i went to sharing in system preferances and selected the folder that contains the VM in "Shared folders" and under "Users" i gave her account read & write permissions. When i log in as my wife and try to launch the VM it says she does not have permissions. I can browse to the folder without any issues. I get the same message if i were to double click the VM also.
I then logged in as the admin and gave her account admin privileges to see if that will fix the issue. when i log in under her account i still get don't have permissions. If she has admin privileges should't she able to have access to any folder on my mac?
The goal is to leave my VM on my Bay2 HDD and have both of us launch Vista VM using VMware fusion successfully from this location under both our accounts
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks
Rpk

Admin permissions does not give you blanket rights to any file. It only gives you the ability to give yourself permission to access a file.
doogald is correct to observe that you have to give your wife permission to read and write to the files inside the folder, and not just read and write permissions on the folder itself. In addition, if your wife doesn't have at least read permission on the folders in which the VM folder is contained, all the way up to the root folder, then she may continue to have problems.
If VM Fusion will allow this, it might be best to move the folder which contains the VM to /Users/Shared. You will still need to ensure that your wife has read and write permission for the folder +and its contents+ but the purpose of /Users/Shared is to share files and folders. This way you won't need to manipulate your permissions beyond making sure the shared folders and files themselves are read-writable by you and your wife.

Server 2003: make user template with read-only access for shared folders

I have need to make a type of user (like Administrator, Power User, Mobile User, User, etc.) that has read-only acess to shared folders. So when I make a new user and assign the "read-only user" template I wish to have, the user can open files
in the shared folders on the server, but not edit, save or delete files. Other users can and should remain able to edit, save & delete.
Before I dig in, is this even possible?

You could create a Group called ReadOnly, and set that to have Read on the ACLs of the relevant files or folders.
Make that template user a member of that group.
As long as they are not also a member of another group that gives them higher permissions, this would work.
Otherwise set the ReadOnly group to deny Write, which would over ride any other permission set.
So,
Folder A
ACL:
ReadOnly : R
Users: Read/Write
If a user is a member of Users & ReadOnly, they would get read/write to Folder A. As permissions are cumulative.
If you did the following:
Folder A
ACL:
ReadOnly : R
ReadOnly: Deny Write
Users: Read/Write
The users in ReadOnly would be denied write, as it overrides the cumulative permissions.
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Map a drive to the Remote Web Access - Shared Folders

All companies love Remote Web Access. No need for VPN for access to remote desktop and the "private skydrive" Shared Folders.
Is there anyway to map a drive to these "private skydrive" Shared Folders? you can map a drive to the real skydrive and to Sharepoint so surely it is possible?

The trick that I found was to upgrade my file server to server 2012 R2 and configure iSCSI Target for the resource I wanted to access by RWA. On my RWA Server I then used the iSCSI initiator to connect to that Target. This makes the shared drive appear
as if it is a native drive on the RWA server. Once this was done I configured that drive, or a folder within that drive for access with RWA. It has worked perfectly ever since.
Trust but verify!

Mountain Lion will no longer connect to my Homeserver shared folders

Yesterday I did a complete system wipe of my Mabook Pro and intalled a fresh copy of Mountain Lion, all has gone well apart from the fact that I can't connect to my Homeserver shared folders or stream from it using Plex, it can remote desktop into it though. All other devices can still connect to the server and the laptop can connect to all other just fine, any idea what might be causing this problem? Many thanks in advance.

I found if you connect to the shares themselves it's a slight work around but not ideal, so instead of doing this:
smb://servername
you do this
smb://severname/sharename
Then if you add them to your favourites by clicking the plus icon in the server connect dialogue box (⌘+k) its liveable with, hopefully this gets sorted in the next OS update.

Sharing Folders in OSX

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