OSX samba server

englishpremier · 6 May 2014 at 21:14

What's the deal the samba server in OSX?

I've set it up to share my "Public" folder, yet when I login from my macbook I can access my main OS partition despite it not being on the share list.

bloodiedathame · 7 May 2014 at 00:04

OSX to OSX you should use AFP rather than Samba.

You've probably logged onto the machine with your own credentials hence seeing everything.

englishpremier · 7 May 2014 at 08:27

I thought it's being phased out with Apple's support of samba2 now.

Yes the machines both run the same user account - is that it then? Odd as it doesn't happen with Linux.

bloodiedathame · 7 May 2014 at 09:53

I've no idea if AFP is being phased out. SMB2 doesn't work well.

I've definitely experienced the user account behaviour you're witnessing, not tried Linux personally.

quickshot89 · 7 May 2014 at 10:10

why not use nfs?

englishpremier · 7 May 2014 at 11:36

Apple are only supporting AFP for Timemachine and backwards compatibility. Samba2 seems to be their new favourite from Mavericks onwards.

Never come across NFS. Version 3 and 4 are both supported in Mavericks. Is it faster than Samba or AFP?

lamboman · 7 May 2014 at 13:59

englishpremier said:
What's the deal the samba server in OSX?

I've set it up to share my "Public" folder, yet when I login from my macbook I can access my main OS partition despite it not being on the share list.

If you're logging into an admin account on the server you'll automatically be given full access to everything. You'll need to create a standard user on the server and log in with that.