OSX samba server

[englishpremier]

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.

 

[englishpremier]

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.

 

[englishpremier]

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?