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AlphaChicken

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Mar 14, 2011
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I am trying to set up a sharing account on my mac book pro generation 4,1.

I am running Leopard 10.5.8 trying to share a specific folder which can be accessed on the home network using SMB and logging in with the credentials of the account.

Under file sharing options I have the folder I want to share selected.

When I try to add the sharing only user account I created, it adds it to the "Users:" list where I Can change read/write permissions.

This is where it gets weird; The account I added to the "Users:" column does not appear in the options menu (where you check SMB to enable it) so that I can enable that account for SMB.

I have tried logging in to the shared folder from my windows 7 PC and it says bad username or password. If I log in with my mac administrator account from the Windows 7 PC then it accepts the credentials.

However, with the admin credentials, it shows the entire contents of my Mac and not the shared folder I created.

I only want the shared folder to be accessible, and only with the specified account I made for shares. What is going on here?

Thanks,
Hank
 
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