File Sharing in OSX

[RobH]

Basically I enabled 'Windows Sharing' like the apple help instructed me to, I can acess my user directory from my Windows XP machine fine. However the directory is open for full read and write access, which I obviously don't want enabled if I'm connecting it to a network.

How do I unshare my user directory and only share certain folders with read-only premission. I'm assuming this can be done and isn't like the FTP issue where OSX simply doesn't have this feature. I don't really want to have to install something like SAMBA just to share a folder on a network.

Sorry for all these questions but as I'm starting to use my MacBook at lot more. Switching from Windows there are abviosuly different ways to do a lot of common tasks I'm used to in Windows.

 

[RobH]

Thanks, guess I'm going to have to configure Samba then. I was hoping there would be an easier way but I guess not. I mean filesharing isn't the easiest thing in Windows but at least you don't need to go and edit a configuration file to share a directory. OSX has a lot of useful features but does lack some of the ones you expect exist, just found out that "cut" doesn't seem to exist either in OSX.

Update: I opened a terminal and tried to copy the new config file over the old one and it says "permission denied". I'm assuming it doesn't like me playing with the system files. How do I overwrite the file?

 

[RobH]

Sorted it, OSX was being weird last night and wouldn't let me login as root. I just did sudo su and overwrote the smb.conf with my new version and it seems to work fine now.