Sharing Folders with PCs on a Network

Hi all. I'm trying to share my music folder with my roommates who are all on the same wireless network. I've figured out how to share the public folder with them, but I want to share a folder that is on a seperate hard drive that doesn't have the OS installed on it. Whats the simple sollution here??? Thanks for any help!

Get your roomates to download iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
then then goto your itunes preferences and turn on music sharing.
Then your roomates will be able to access your itunes music library from their itunes.
Otherwise to share folders from your mac to pc users the best way to do it is using sharepoints

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Hi,
I work in a rug showroom, and I love how easy it is to organize photos of our inventory in iPhoto. Most of our photos are high-res, so the built-in e-mail function is extremely useful. However, I'm the sole Mac in a showroom full of PCs, and I'm getting sick of having to do all of the e-mailing for everyone in the showroom. So, my questions are:
1. Is there a simple way to share my iPhoto library with the PCs on our network?
2. Is there an application for PC that is like (or just is) iPhoto that will allow me to share with a PC?
3. Is there a better solution? (Unfortunately, we're not getting any new computers...)
Thanks in advance for your help!

lahmadin
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1. Is there a simple way to share my iPhoto library with the PCs on our network?
No, iPhoto has no such capability. You could try share the images from the iPhoto Library Folder but that could easily lead to your library being corrupted. I would not recommend it.
2. Is there an application for PC that is like (or just is) iPhoto that will allow me to share with a PC?
Google's Picasa is frequently mentioned a similar to iPhoto, but it doesn't have a Mac version.
3. Is there a better solution? (Unfortunately, we're not getting any new computers...)
What's your budget? Check out apps like iView or Extensis Portfolio
Regards
TD

Can't see shared folders with smbnetfs

Hi!
I'm having trouble with smbnetfs. i installed it successfully, but the folder where the shares should be mounted is always empty
I can mount folders with smbmount and there are no problems but i would like to be able to see all the shared folders...
can somebody help me?
thanks!

Just to dig in deeper with this. I'm having a similar problem (perhaps the same) as described above.
I'm using smbnetfs to mount a folder in my home directory to be my network neighbourhood. When I open it in pcmanfm I can see the work groups, and upon opening a workgroup it'll show nothing more. But in fact, when you open the terminal and do a ls -a you'll notice there are in fact folders corresponding to your computers in that workgroup. Browsing any further works flawlessly.
It's however a minor annoyance that pcmanfm doesn't seem to show them (you can however add a slash to your navigation bar and they'll show up there, rather weird). Has anyone found a way to solve that?

Persistent sharing problem with Leopard/windows home networking

as new Mac user I am surprised by the user friendly Mac+Leop.
So I assume it must be a bug (xp or leop??)that makes correct networking difficult.
1: The PC-xp sees the Mac and the shared folders but the content of folders is not possible to open nor is it possible to write into the folder
2: shared folders and files on the PC have read and write access from iMac (works correct)
3: error message:
//mycomputer/public is not accessible you may not have permission to use this network resource
Contact the adminstrator of this server to find out if you have access permission
4: my configuration
Lan with iMac2,8/4G OSx10,5,3 + Router + Pc1,6/750M Xp-sp2
5: iMac is configured with
security/firewall set to "allow all incoming connections"
sharing/services set to
file sharing
printer sharing
Windows sharing set
on
shared folders
Public
users set
my account /Read & Write
options selected
share files and folders using SMB
account set to
my account
the info window for Public folder has
Shared Folder - selected
Sharing &Permissions
- custom access
-Name /my account(Me) defined as the owner
-Privilege /read&write
preferences
- apply to enclosed items
6: Pc is configured with
My Network Places/Microsoft Windows Network/Workgroup/
-my iMac/public folder
-my PC/public folder
Any suggestion welcome , I followed already the "simple guide to Leopard/Windows Home Networking" from Mac support but the problem is persistent.
thank you in advance

I'm having a very similar sharing problem. Did you ever get it resolved?

Sharing folders with Samba in Mavericks

Hi,
I've spent the whole afternoon trying to access some shared folders of my MacBook Pro from a machine running Ubuntu 12.04 using samba. is it possible? I read AFP is deprecated and SMB2 is going to be the standard protocol. I also read SMB2 is getting some compatiblities problems because it is unstable so far, and that a possible workaround is to force smbd to use the old SMB1. I have been succeed connecting from a Windows PC to the MacBook Pro using both protocols: SMB and AFP, but with a Ubuntu PC only with the second option. Again, is it possible to access my shared mac's resource using SMB? if AFP is pretended to disappear, how I will access my folders from a linux PC?
Thanks

Yes - the ability to share folders will be coming in a future release. Stay tuned!
thanks,
Todd

Sharing folders with 2 macs

I have an imac and a MBP connected on a wireless network. I want to see the full contents of the files(docs, photos, etc) on each machine from the other one and vise versa?. How do I do this?

See the following:
Mac OS X- About File Sharing
Mac OS X 10.5 Help- Sharing your computer with others on your network
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger - Networks & Sharing
Also, select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "sharing."

Problem accessing shared folders with SMB from a Windows machine

When I reboot my Macmini, I cant access the shared folders from any Windows machine. On the Windows machine, I'm being prompted for my password, but event re-entering my password does help to get access.
The workaround I found is to go to the MacOSX System Preferences, Sharing, File Sharing, Options, and to uncheck and re-check the checkbox Share file and folders using SMB (Windows). Then I can access again the shared forders from a Windows machine and I'm not re-prompted for my password.
This is quite trooblesome to do that everytime I reboot my Mac. Is anybody experiencing the same pb? Any idea to fix it?
Also, since Lion, I'm experiencing some connection interruption, especially when copying big files from my Mac to a Windows machine.

Yes that is basically the only workaround for this problem. By chance do you have a SSD installed in the Mini?
I had this problem on my MBP when I had a SSD installed. Problem goes away with the original drive or a Seagate XT series drive.
If you don't have a SSD installed the only other option is to Wipe the drive and reinstall and test (Make a TM backup first so you can restore if the problem continues with the clean Re-Install).
JosoSG wrote:
When I reboot my Macmini, I cant access the shared folders from any Windows machine. On the Windows machine, I'm being prompted for my password, but event re-entering my password does help to get access.
The workaround I found is to go to the MacOSX System Preferences, Sharing, File Sharing, Options, and to uncheck and re-check the checkbox Share file and folders using SMB (Windows). Then I can access again the shared forders from a Windows machine and I'm not re-prompted for my password.
This is quite trooblesome to do that everytime I reboot my Mac. Is anybody experiencing the same pb? Any idea to fix it?
Also, since Lion, I'm experiencing some connection interruption, especially when copying big files from my Mac to a Windows machine.

Deleting Shared Folders with SirAdmin

I have a bunch of weird Shared Folders in /var/spool/imap:
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^-^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-^-spiking21
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-abbessesh
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-abductinggr902
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-admonitionsj2
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-airmenc1
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-alanfb15
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-alcoholismm
I am trying to use SirAdmin to delete them, but I always get Permission Denied when I do that.
I am using my admin user to login to the server with SirAdmin.
How can I get rid of these folders?
Ivan

Don't use your normal admin user for this - create a "siradmin" user (specific name not important). I cannot remember though why this was the advice - so maybe redundant now.
Add that admin to /etc/imapd.conf so that 'admins' line reads like...
admins: cyrusimap siradmin
After logging into SirAdmin, select the shared folder and add an ACL for the siradmin user, with ALL permissions. Then delete the folder. You have to give the user delete permissions before being able to delete it, strange but true

Sharing Folders with single users and Teams?

Will there be an option to share folders with single users and teams. Something like DropBox in the near future?

Yes - the ability to share folders will be coming in a future release. Stay tuned!
thanks,
Todd

Can't see my network shared folders(on PCs)

I have a home network with D-Link router with 3 other computers (2 WinXP and a Vista). The computers are all on the same subnet 192.168.0.10X and all use DHCP from the Router.
The Macbook is getting an IP from the router but it doesn't see the other computers in the Finder. and when I go to the Network utility an ping to the other computers or even to the router it doesn't receive any packets back.
I have no Idea what to do. I would really appriciate help in the matter

Activate your iCloud email address, then copy the folders and content from the Hotmail account to the iCloud account, do them one at a time and ensure that each one is completely copied before starting the next. This will take time as you are moving the mail across the internet.

Can't see shared folders with AFP protocol

Hi,
I have an home network, with 2 iMac and a Netgear (DG834PN) router.
When I try to share a folder with AFP protocol (Preferences > Sharing > Sharing documents),
I can't see it from other computer.

Just to dig in deeper with this. I'm having a similar problem (perhaps the same) as described above.
I'm using smbnetfs to mount a folder in my home directory to be my network neighbourhood. When I open it in pcmanfm I can see the work groups, and upon opening a workgroup it'll show nothing more. But in fact, when you open the terminal and do a ls -a you'll notice there are in fact folders corresponding to your computers in that workgroup. Browsing any further works flawlessly.
It's however a minor annoyance that pcmanfm doesn't seem to show them (you can however add a slash to your navigation bar and they'll show up there, rather weird). Has anyone found a way to solve that?

Problem: Sharing Folders with iMac and winXP

We have been running a small workgroup sharing so far two winxp machines over a wifi-modem-router-switch. The two pc share folders without problem.
I have now proudly made the switch over to using Apple iMac. Whilst the iMac experience is fantastic, getting to share the iMac with the rest of the winXP is turning into a nightmare.
I have spent 45 minutes with the tech support team of my ISP router supplier (ISP:Club-Internet - Router :AH4021/Tecom AH4222)
Every check & settings turned out to be fine, but they were unable to diagnose the problem.
I spent 3 sessions and over 1 hour (without counting time waiting over the phone) with the Apple support team, and whilst they were very friendly, they were unable to diagnose the problem.
I cannot ping the iMac from the xp machine, but I am told there is hope though, as i can ping ok my xp machine from iMac.
All firewalls have been removed.
File n window sharing set on all machines.
DHCP manually setup assigning fix IP/DNS etc..
Same username on all machines, with unique machine name
Is there anybody who could help? Help!

Just hanged up from Apple tech support France, and this time, spoke to another friendly AND helpful support assistant named Simon.
Simon got me straight into the Finder>Go>Connect to Server
Type into your Server Address window : smb://and here your pc ip address you want to get to
example: smb://192.168.1.2
Hit Enter key, and your pc should appear
Thank you Simon!
Also, watch out for port 80 being hugged by apps like Skype...it might interfer
AND any port being specified into your NAT configuration in your router might confused the search.
Voila!

OneDrive business - sharing folders with users that dont have onedrive licenses.

So I want to try to accomplish something on the cheap. I work for a small company with a about 40 user mailboxes using Office 365 hosted exchange E1. About 15 of those users primarily work on the road as field techs doing service work at customer locations.
What I want to do:
Add 1 license of one drive for business to the admin user of the organization.Create folders in the OneDrive.
Create user groups in O365.
Add users without One Drive for business licenses / drives to the user groups.Share the Folders in OneDrive account with the O365 user groups.Questions:First of all does this violate any licensing? (If so might as well stop reading here, everything else is a moot point),I would assume it doesn't though - I could share files to other people like customers who are unlicensed by generating links and sending the link via email, so why...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Hi,
You can learn how to share documents or folders in OneDrive for Business from this article:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/sharepoint-server-help/share-documents-or-folders-in-onedrive-for-business-HA102788380.aspx#_Toc370821985
Please also refer to the link below to learn how to share folders and files on an iPhone or iPad:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/use-the-onedrive-for-business-app-on-an-iphone-or-ipad-HA104005688.aspx#_Toc383014599
As for your request to share from a Desktop App, I admit that's a limitation so far. Since Microsoft will always improve its products to make them more powerful and easier to use, let's see what will happen in the future.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Sharing folders with S-users

Dear Colleagues
I evaluate a lot of documents from partners and need to know how can I share a folder with a partner that has s-user and a passport installed. Until today I am facing a lot of problems trying to do that.
Thanks, Jorge

Hi Jorge,
the combination of S-User and a passport seems to create some problems. What you can do to share documents with the s-user is to create a to create a Share in Mobile Documents and add the user with their email adress as member. If the S-User belongs to the email adress you enter they just can login with their S-User and password. If not they need to register at the SCN with the email adress you used.
I hope that helps to solve your problem.
Best regards
Alex

Sharing iCal with PCs privately

I'm wondering what my options are if I wanted to share my iCal calendars with a PC without having them publicly published. Is it possible to have passworded calendars?
Basically publishing solves my problem now I just need to make them private.
Thoughts?

You may want to take a look at spanning sync - it is a paying software and no am not employee or investor - which I use and so far is doing a good job. Spanning sync syncs ical calendars to google calendars - you would have to create a google account of course, and that is free. Once that is done, and ical syncs with gcal via spanning sync, then you can invite people to view your google calendars and give them either read or write privileges - more secure than publishing via a private server or .mac.
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