Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

madman555

macrumors member
Original poster
Feb 20, 2009
57
4
Hi all,

I'm sharing my Public folder on my iMac. I have file sharing enabled, both with afp and smb. I have the "Allow guests to connect to shared folders" enabled on the guest account. Previously when I was running SL, I could access the shared folder from my Vista computer by typing \\192.168.20.120 (iMac's IP address). A box would then pop up prompting for my user name and password. All I had to do was enter "guest" for the user name and I was in. After installing Lion, whenever I enter "guest", it tells me incorrect password. When I browse my network on the Vista computer, I see the iMac, I just can't connect and authenticate.

Oh, I also have a shared folder on my Vista computer and the iMac has no problems connecting to it. Does anyone have any idea what I can do so that my Vista computer and access my shared folders on my iMac? Thanks!
 
I found a solution:

I created a new user account called "share" and set the new account to "Sharing Only". Left the password field blank too. When I went to connect to my shared folder on my Mac from Vista, I just typed "share" instead of "guest" and it worked. Not sure what's wrong with the Guest account but it seems like there's a password set to it.

One more thing, I had to go to Sharing -> File Sharing -> Options and then check the box next to the "share" account
 
Thanks for your solution madman555:)

I could create file/folder in shared folder from Windows XP by following your instruction.

But the permission of the file/folder I created were readable and writable for the user "share" only, and other users including "everyone" have no permission.

I could access to the file/folder from Mac OS X Lion by changing the permission of "Get Info" menu, but it was tiresome to do this everytime.

Any idea?
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.