Image: Apple There are times when it is a necessity to share folders across a network—regardless of your platform. It should come as no surprise that the ability to share folders is built into macOS. The process for sharing out these folders is incredibly painless. I'm going to show you how this is done with macOS High Sierra on a MacBook Pro. As you might expect, the process is handled completely through a GUI—so no commands need apply. With that said, let's share. Setting up the share To create the share click the Apple menu and then click System Preferences Sharing.
Feb 11, 2014 - Disable Public Folder Sharing in Mac OS X If you've ever joined a public wi-fi network and noticed the Finder sidebar is suddenly filled with. Turn on File Sharing to be able to share files in the Finder. To access another Mac’s files in the Finder, choose Go > Network, double-click one of the computers or devices that displays,.
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In the resulting window, select File Sharing from the left navigation ( Figure A). To share out a specific folder, click the + button under the Shared Folders pane. Navigate to the folder to be shared, select it, and click Add. Once you've added the necessary folder, you'll want to add a user that will have access to the folder. Before you do that, you'll want to add that user to your Contacts app (if the user doesn't already exist). When that user has bee added to Contacts, click the + button under the Users pane in the Sharing window.
Select the user and you will be prompted to create a password so the user can authenticate to your share. You will have to give that username and password to whomever requires access to the folder. Don't worry, the credentials are only good for the share and not the system.
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Enabling the new user for SMB file sharing. Click Done and you'll be returned to the Sharing window.
You will shown the address for which the user will connect to your share (in the form of smb://IPADDRESS where IPADDRESS is the actual IP address of your macOS machine). Connecting to the share How this is done will depend upon the desktop platform the user will be connecting from. Regardless of operating system, chances are the user will connect via their desktop file manager. Open that up and point the app to the address presented within the Sharing window. They will be prompted for the user credentials.
Once they successfully enter the credentials, they will be presented with the shares. And that's all there is to it! File sharing made incredibly easy on macOS.
(Note: For users looking to map drives on Windows, please see ) Getting Access to a Drive. After being granted access to a drive, you must restart your computer before mapping a drive to it. If you are denied access to a drive, please restart your computer and try mapping it again.
Authorizers can grant access to users via the Permissions Manager. Authorizers do not automatically have access, but they can grant access to themselves. The Permissions Manager can be accessed here:.
Instructions on how to use Permissions Manager are here:. Open the Finder if it is not open already.