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protyne

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Original poster
Sep 13, 2009
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Dear all,

I have been trying to get my MBP to access a external usb hdd on my iMac.

Ext HDD is in NTFS format. Both MBP and iMac installed with NTFS-3g (MacFUSE).

From the MBP I can connect to the iMac as Guest and see shared folders that reside locally on the iMac.

I have added the ext hdd volume under Sharing and permission set accordingly but upon connecting I am to see all other shared folders but the ext hdd volume.

I can also connect as a user that has admin rights on the iMac and see all folders locally on the iMac whether shared or unshared.

I read that by access as admin user I should have been able to see all mounted drives, but unfortunately not the ext usb hdd.

I'm connecting via Finder -> Go -> Connect to a server -> afp://my-machine.local

May I know if I am missing a step here?

Thank you all very much!
 
Switched to SMB instead of AFP and the external HDD showed up.

Cheers :)
 
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