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How can I share an external hard drive with another Mac?

I have file sharing working between my iMac (10.8.3) and MacBook Pro (also 10.8.3), and I have an external "My BooK" drive (USB, MS DOS format) that I want to share. The iMac (where the external drive ...
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Mountain Lion 10.8.3 file sharing broken for particular named folder

I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on a 2012 Mac Mini. The Mini is headless and I'm using an iMac to do screen sharing for admin purposes. I'm trying to set up sharing of a particular folder on an ...
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Cannot access administrative share (c$) on a Windows 8 PC from Mountain Lion

I'm having an issue trying to access administrative shares on my Windows 8 PC from my MacBook Air running OSX 10.8.2. Here is the process, errors and background info: On the MacBook, Go menu > ...
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Lack of sharing options

Im having some trouble using the new sharing features in Finder, Preview, etc. Having tried with many different file types (pictures, text, audio, video), it only ever lists Messages and Airdrop. Not ...
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How can I transfer a Large (450Mb) file between two Mountain Lion Macbook Pros?

I have two identical Macbook Pro Retina laptops. How can I transfer files between them? I have looked at the AirPort utility, but don't see a way to "create a new network" let alone make it ...
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Why can’t I share my Internet connection with another Mac?

I tried to share my Internet connection with another Mac but it failed. I could before I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I have a 3G USB modem that I use for Internet. I went to System Preferences → ...
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How to change computer name so terminal displays it in Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

When I setup my computer I named it "Scott's MacBook Pro". And so when I go to System preferences->Sharing, it says Scott's MacBook Pro there as my computer name. However, opening up a terminal gives ...
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Sharing users between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard — will this break user preferences?

I have ML and SL installed as dual boot OSes and want to share a user's home directory (on an external drive). I wonder, however, if I rather should use different users for each OS as ML might write ...
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guest access to samba shares on 10.8

Is there any way to allow public (ie no user/password prompt) access to samba shares using the mountain lion built in server? Even with Everyone set to read/write in System Preferences and the guest ...
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Backup Time machine after update to Mountain Lion on windows share does not work any longer

I have a windows 7 network at home. I use a windows share to write the TM backup's. It worked perfect until the update toe Mountain Lion. Who has the key to solve this?
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Mac Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 - Unable to connect to shared folders on Windows PC's on network

I cannot successfully connect to any of the shared windows folders on any of the network-connected PC's since the installation of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.
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Backgrounding iPhoto sharing via email

I just found out that when you share a picture in iPhoto via email, the email screen does not go away until the photo has been completely emailed. This means, if its a large photo that I am trying to ...
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How do I remove Twitter and Facebook from Mountain Lion?

I want to remove Twitter and Facebook (in the future) from Mountain Lion. Is it enough to simply remove Twitter.sharingservice from ...
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How to remap the “Send tweet” hotkey?

In Mountain Lion there is a "tweet sheet" when sharing from either notification center or an app. The default hotkey for "send tweet" is CMDShiftD. I'd like to use something like CMDRETURN. Is there a ...
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Twitter And Facebook Integration Missing In Notification center?

I have recently installed Mountain Lion and noticed that 'Sharing' via Facbook and Twitter are missing! I have checked the System Preferences to enable this feature but I am stuck. Can anyone help ...