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Spanky Deluxe

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Mar 17, 2005
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This is driving me nuts and all the responses I've found by searching simply say "Copy the folder to your public folder" which won't work for me.

I've got a couple of folders on different hard drives to my primary drive that I want to share to both Windows and OS X users, primarily Windows so that they don't need a password or username to access them and don't have write priviledges.

In Windows this would be an easy thing, right click the folder and share but in OS X I can't for the life of me work out how to do this, it should be a really simple thing, right?

Like I said, copying these folders over to my public folder is not good enough because a) this is about 0.5TB worth of data and b) I don't want any authorisation of any kind.

Could someone possibly help me with this? Its driving me nuts, I spent eight hours last night organising the data, getting ready to share it!!
 
Networking, sharing, etc...

I hope so much that Apple is redesigning to whole way a user has to go about browsing for and connecting to networks, shares, etc. Windows XP/Vista is soooo far ahead of Apple in this area. Apple use to be ahead of MS in this area until OS X came out. Please, Apple, fix this!!!
 
I do wonder, though... Microsoft's system works in parts because Windows is so sloppy with permissions.

Anyway, Sharepoints seems like a simple solution... just out of curiosity, is it possible to easily and safely set this up with alias links inside the public folder? I haven't tried that.
 
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