File Sharing won't 'unshare'

[kevinsa]

I setup file sharing on my mac to access files over ftp or afp. However, after deleting these shares from my system preferences sharing panel, I can still access these shares if I connect.

Please note that I am accessing the share from the computer itself. ie afp://192.168.1.65

I'm not sure if this has any significance.

System Preferences

Accessing Shares

Succesfully Connecting

Does anybody know what's going on?

Thanks in advance

Kev

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Might be a Mac OS X bug. Could also be that File Sharing won't apply your changes to shared folders if doing so causes their number to drop to 0, which makes sense - why enable File Sharing in that case?

 

[kevinsa]

Well I was testing it out, and it is something I would like to use for just one folder, not all the ones you can see in the screenshot.

I get the same problem whether the preferences bit is empty or has one share in it.

EDIT

Do you know the preference file associated with this which I could reset somehow?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Oh... it's because you're an administrator. Admins have access to all volumes on the computer. If you create another user account, just for sharing purposes, and do NOT give it administrator rights, then add a shared folder for that account - it'll work the way you want it to.

 

[kevinsa]

That has done it. Thanks.

I didn't need to make a whole new user account, I just made a sharing account from within the sharing system preferences.