Dumb question: File sharing?

[Dorkington]

This is getting to the point where I feel like I'm missing something silly and simple.

I have an external drive that I keep most of my media on. I want to share it with my network. The computer with the external devices is a 24" iMac with 10.6.6 installed.

I go to System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing

I hit the "+" icon on the left set, add the folder on the external drive.

(this is where it starts getting weird)

Permissions for the external drive are greyed out. I can't edit them at all. But it all indicates that Read/Write is available for everyone.

For testing sake, I also have folders shared on my internal hard drive as well.

I log on to the network on another Mac, browse to the iMac as a guest. It shows my internal drive folders fine, but nothing for the external drive folder. Ok, so I log in with my admin information, and I remember this would show you all the volumes. It's only showing the system volume, and none of the external drives or the other internal partition.

I'm kind of lost.

Help?

 

[walterwhite]

Is the Drive GUID formatted?

 

[balamw]

Can you tell us a bit more about the external? Is it formatted HFS+ (journaled) or something else?

Screenshots?

Is the Drive GUID formatted?

As in the other thread, I don't think you understand what this means. The internal drive is definitely GUID/GPT formatted and that works fine. What are you asking?

EDIT: Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

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[Dorkington]

Gotta love asking before doing the most basic of troubleshooting.

I repaired permissions and restarted, and now the shared folders are showing up.

*head desk*

Hopefully the problem doesn't crop up again though.

For future reference, all of my drives besides the system drive and time machine are formatted FAT32.

 

[balamw]

For future reference, all of my drives besides the system drive and time machine are formatted FAT32.

Lots of funkiness recently with FAT32/exFAT.

e.g. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1086583/ all within Windows 7 and required a chkdsk.

Personally, I don't think it's worth it on anything but a thumb drive. NTFS/NFS+ or NAS all the way.

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