#SMBUP CONNECTION PROBLEMS HOW TO#
#SMBUP CONNECTION PROBLEMS FOR MAC#

I’m going to post about this sharing issue in the Apple support forums as well, see if anyone there has any ideas. In case it matters, when I use “Get Info” on the drive and view its properties, its permissions say “Everyone – No Access”. Thought of that, can’t add any individual folders from the drive. If you want it secured by user, consult Dr. Path = '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/theuser/Public' # CHANGE YOURHARDDRIVE TO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND CHECK THE PATH IS CORRECT # ** Configuration file for Samba SMB server ** The following is a preview of my “smb.conf” file (located at “/localhost/opt/local/etc/samba3/”):

In addition to this tutorial, I had to change security=share and guest account = nobody in the global section and public = yes and guest ok = yes in my share section.

#SMBUP CONNECTION PROBLEMS HOW TO#

I found this great tutorial on how to set things right. This guide did not got me running on OSX Lion (10.7). Now exit out of the settings menu and your new network share should be there. Username is not case-sensitive but the password is. – Username and password has to be the same as specified on the Mac when you added SMB sharing. you don’t need to enter a capital ‘M’ if the shared folder is called ‘Movies’ – Share name is the name of the shared folder that you added on the Mac side. – Share IP should be the IP address of your Mac on the network that you took a note of previously – Display name can be whatever you like to identify each shared folder, (i.e. – Click on options (the gears icon), then click ‘Network’ and ‘Add SMB Share’ – Make a note of the IP address under ‘File Sharing: On’ e.g. Check the box marked ‘Share files and folders using SMB (Windows), Then also check the box for the current user. Ensure the current user has full read/write access. – Check the box marked ‘File Sharing’ and add any folders you wish to share in the first panel. If anyone has any questions, I will be happy to assist, although I am no expert.

I wrote this step-by-step while setting it up again at the same time to make sure nothing was left out, so this guide should be all correct and get most people’s sharing problems sorted, chaos theory aside. I tried to get SMB sharing working with WiiMC a few months ago but failed miserably, but I have managed to get it up and running this time round.

#SMBUP CONNECTION PROBLEMS FOR MAC#

Since there doesn’t seem to be much help out there for mac users so far, I decided to write this guide.

Smbup connection problems