How to control access point on a Mac?

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schmidrjschmidrj
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
With some effort, I was able to get my wife's PC (win98) see my G5, and mount it as a volume. What I can't figure out how to do, is control from what directory her view into my Mac starts. In other words, how do I set up different "share points" on my Mac?



Probably easy, just can't seem to figure out how to do it!



TIA!

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    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,576member
    I only know of two share points - your shared folder which is accessible by guests and the entire account which is accessible with a password.



    Seems like some time ago I read of a way to share arbitrary folders but it was not something simple. Try searching macosxhints.com.
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    schmidrjschmidrj Posts: 11member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by neutrino23

    I only know of two share points - your shared folder which is accessible by guests and the entire account which is accessible with a password.



    Seems like some time ago I read of a way to share arbitrary folders but it was not something simple. Try searching macosxhints.com.



    Interesting.....



    1. I found a shareware utility that adds a preference pane in your system preferences that allows you to do this (Sharepoints from versiontracker.com). Basically, it lists all the share points, and allows you to add or delete them. I think this is a feature that Apple should include!



    2. Interestingly, I can now mount anything I want on my wife's PC, but it never asks for a username/password when she mounts a network drive. I created an account on her PC that has the same name as mine on the mac, but on her PC it has no password. This sounds like a security hole to me. This is scary!



    3. One of the things things I wanted to do was to allow her to browse through the several thousand photos that I have loaded into iPhoto. What a jumble of a mess iPhoto does! Is their a PC front-end to an iPhoto library that can be used for browsing?
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    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    Try pointing your browser to localhost:901 if you have "Windows Sharing" turned on (it will want a root login). This will allow you to edit a whole number of things on SMB (the windows sharing protocol). One note though, making any changes to file sharing through the control panel will likely over-write any changes you make.
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