Refers to any method of transferring a file from one device to another, whether that be via FTP, share sheets, an attachment in an email, or Airdrop
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Sharing large library of Photos and Videos (currently in iPhoto) in different macs at home
currently I have iPhoto on my mac (mountain lion). the library is more than 350 GB (and growing fast). It is only on my computer, but my wife wants to have acces to the pictures too, not only ...
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How do I share files with users based on Apple ID?
How do I setup file sharing across multiple macs, such that I can share by connecting with my Apple ID, as opposed to a username/password?
I've searched the net for documentation on doing this, and ...
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OSX 10.7 File Sharing does not respect Group: Everyone “No Access”. Share publicly displays
As the title says. I have a folder, which I added to my Shared Folder list under System Preferences > Sharing that I do not want to broadcast publicly. I'm the owner of the folder and my access is ...
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Can't copy into my own Public folder
I can't copy into my own Public folder neither with my finder nor from terminal 'sudo cp ~/temp/gyongyinek/* ~/Public/'
If I execute the above command from terminal I got this:
Operation not ...
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OSX server 10.6 and umask
I'm trying to set up our server so that file permissions make sense. We have a mac mini running OSX 10.6.7. Through our desktop Macs, we connect to shared folders on that server and save files on it, ...
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OS X Lion SMB shared folder lost execute permission
After updating from 10.6.8 to Lion 10.7.0, my shared folder (shared over SMB) begin having strange problem with my Windows VM.
When I create a .exe file from my Delphi compiler or create simple test ...
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mac fails to reconnect to SMB share after coming back from suspend
I've got a mac (OS X 10.8.2) that's accessing files on an Win7 SMB share. About half the time the Mac comes back from suspend it can't connect to the SMB share. The Win7 machine is on and the password ...
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How can one determine which user deleted a shared file on OS X Mountain Lion Server
My girlfriend is a lab technician at a small pharmaceutical startup. She created a very important Excel file and placed it in a shared folder on a server that the "IT" guy set up. The server runs ...
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How to fix 10.8 internet sharing resulting in poor file sharing performance and no Time Machine server?
TL;DR - File sharing performance is extremely poor on a Mac Pro running 10.8.2 with file sharing enabled. Using it as a Time Machine server also no longer works in this setup.
I have been ...
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What kind of partition should I use for a shared network drive used mostly un Mac?
I have a 2TB external USB drive that I'm using to share things in my home network.
Now the drive is connected to my Mac Mini, that is supposed to act like a file server.
Currently the drive is ...
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Controlling File Permissions on a Windows File Share
I'm using a Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.3) with file sharing enabled to Windows users.
Whenever a Windows user copies a file into the share on the Mac (Windows file sharing), the permissions of ...
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How can I change permissions of mount point of a network resource on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)?
I want to give another user permission to a mount point of a network resource. The directory mode is 700 and the owner is, of course, the logged in user who created the mount point.
I have programs ...
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10.7.5 New Folder Privileges are Read Only
I have a 2.8G Quad-Core running 10.7.5 with dual Hard drives; a Mac HD and a Data Drive. I share the Data Drive with two other Macs running 10.5.8.
Whenever I create a new folder on either the Mac ...
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Accessing file shares on other mac on macs with shared connections
It is probably best to first describe the ridiculous network setup I have:
I have a time capsule connected via ethernet to my university's network. It is sharing this internet connection with a group ...
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Local networking: File sharing permissions over AFP
I am having trouble getting read/write file sharing working over my local network.
I have shared a folder via AFP, named 'Pictures', with a specific user through System Preferences > Sharing.
By ...
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How to stop cifs volumes disconnecting
At work my Mac Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.3) connects to several network shares (on a SAN which I use my AD credentials to authenticate to). I connect using cifs by going to the "Connect to server" ...
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Mac Mini, users with permissions cannot connect
I have a Mac Mini Server with File Sharing enabled, but when I go to connect any of my users that aren't allowed to "Administer this server" I get a connection failed error. But If I give them Admin ...
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I am sharing an external drive with two partitions through my Time Capsule. I am sharing them over WAN but can only see one partition?
I recently purchased the 1TB LaCie Rugged external drive. I created a 120GB HSF+ partition titled "HSF" and a 790GB MS-DOS partition titled "Drive".
I am currently sharing the disk over WAN but I ...
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Is there a way to get the OS X 10.8 Server to create multiple ftp shares?
I have a set of academic web hosts. I need to provide access to a web server so that multiple users can have private web space. The default setting hosts a single share.
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How to access a symlink pointing to a place outside the share?
I have a share on Lion Server, and a symlink pointing to a directory outside the share. The symlink is working properly when user is logged into the machine via ssh (so permissions are fine), but when ...
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How to add system users/groups to ACL in Lion
I'm using Lion and am trying to modify my ACL for a folder within Finder to share with user _www . I have opened the Properties window, and expanded the Sharing & Permissions section, but I do ...
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Search across multiple OS X computers via offline indexing
A feature I would love to see in Spotlight or some other Search/Indexing application would be the ability to search multiple desktops even when they are not currently connected via AFP/Bonjour or ...
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How to set µTorrent bt_sequential setting?
There is two settings in µTorrent’s internals:
bt.sequential_download and bt.sequential_files.
Proof (It's Russian — because I couldn't find in English).
How can I change them in OS X?
UPDATE: Well, ...
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Accessing other mac on local network with computer name
We have two macs which is connected to a WiFi network. One mac is named 'mobi4' and other mac is named 'mobi6'. In Finder window, I choose Go -> Connect To Server and type mobi6, but I get an error ...
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How do I access a shared Windows folder from my Mac without giving access to Everyone?
I have shared a folder (the user's directory) from my Vista PC so that I can access it from my Mac. The PC only has one user account, which doesn't have a password.
When I try to access the folder ...
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Screen sharing issues
I have 2 macs and often screen share. It works once then disconnects after a while and we cannot reconnect until we restart one of the laptops and then even that doesn't always work. We are on wifi on ...
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Automator: How to copy the contents of local folder to a linux smb share?
I use Lion and I'm trying to make a folder action that copies the content of a local folder to a Samba share, but when I execute the action at Automator it copies the folder and not only its contents ...
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How can I create a Windows shared folder that anyone can access without a password?
I've just set up my old Mac mini (OS X 10.4) as a little server (download station and file sharing). How can I create a Windows shared folder so I can access it from my Linux and Windows laptops with ...
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Windows XP Server needs reboot to be discoverable with OS X Lion
I'm really not sure whether this is a Mac question or a PC question, so I will cross-post to both SE sites (see this Super User post). I'm expecting it has to do with how the PC is configured, but if ...
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Automatically grant RW access to everyone for files created by a 'sharing-only' user
We have a user account on a computer which is set as a 'sharing only' account. Everyone in our office uses that account to connect to the computer to drop files.
They can connect and copy files ...
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Flush AFP client cache
I have an AFP server with netatalk on a Linux box, which maintains CNIDs separate from the actual files. Due to a faulty disk (or rather, three of them in a RAID6), the database with the CNID mapping ...
