file sharing on OS X
I haven't really delved in to file sharing since OS 9.
So today I wanted to share some stuff on one PowerBook to move it to another. I wanted to save time, instead of using Target Disk. I'll have to do that though because OS X is retarded.
In OS 9 you could share anything, anywhere on the drive.
Unless I'm missing something huge, you can only share something on OS X if it's in the Public folder. That is retarded. Maybe it wouldn't be if you could put aliases in there. However aliases don't work. If I drag an alias to the hard drive there, it points to MY hard drive if I'm on my computer. That is retarded. It at least could display a useful message saying "Gee, we're sorry that we're retarded, but aliases don't work."
Any ideas? Is this some retarded UNIX limitation? Will it change? I'll probably just have to install a shareware hack to correct this mistake.
So today I wanted to share some stuff on one PowerBook to move it to another. I wanted to save time, instead of using Target Disk. I'll have to do that though because OS X is retarded.
In OS 9 you could share anything, anywhere on the drive.
Unless I'm missing something huge, you can only share something on OS X if it's in the Public folder. That is retarded. Maybe it wouldn't be if you could put aliases in there. However aliases don't work. If I drag an alias to the hard drive there, it points to MY hard drive if I'm on my computer. That is retarded. It at least could display a useful message saying "Gee, we're sorry that we're retarded, but aliases don't work."
Any ideas? Is this some retarded UNIX limitation? Will it change? I'll probably just have to install a shareware hack to correct this mistake.
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Originally posted by DHagan4755
No you can browse the entire drive by connecting to the OS X computer and logging in as an administrative user. On OS X Server, however, the setup is a little different.
Well, i can understand the original poster quite a bit.
Out of the box Mac OS X offers two possibilities:
either full admin access over an entire computer
or guest access without password protection.
This is unbelievable to some extent.
However there are options