Mac Integration Basics v10.7 - Apple

Personal File Sharing
To allow other network users to connect to your Mac, you have to turn on file sharing
in System Preferences. You may want to create a special file-sharing account on your
Mac, to maintain the security of your unshared files.
You’ll need to give these pieces of information to the users you want to authorize to
access your shared files:
• The IP or Bonjour (the OS X auto network discovery feature) address of your Mac
• The user account name for the account on your Mac that has file sharing turned on
• The user account password for the file-sharing account on your Mac
Note: If you want to use a user account that existed before you installed the latest
version of OS X, you may need to reset the password for the account in Users &
Groups preferences.
Before you set up sharing you should choose which folders to share with network
users and which permissions they’ll have. By default, the Mac administrator account
has full read and write access while all others have only read access.
Select which folders to share:
1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Sharing.
2. Select File Sharing in the list.
3. Click Add (+) at the bottom of the Shared Folders list, and then locate the folder, select
it, and click Add.
By default, the Public folder of each user with an account on your computer is shared.
To keep a folder from being shared, select it in the Shared Folders list and click Delete
(-).
4. To give only specific users access to a folder, select the folder in the Shared Folders list
and click Add (+) at the bottom of the Users list. Select a category of user, and then
select the user and click Select.
• To select a user from the accounts you’ve set up in Users & Groups preferences,
select Users & Groups.
• To select a user from users on your network, select Network Users.
• To select a user in your personal address book, select Address Book.
• To create a new account that will only be used for sharing, click New Person, enter a
name and password, and click Create Account.
5. Select the user in the Users list, and then click the triangles next to the user name and
choose the level of access the user should have to the selected folder:
• No Access: The user can’t see or copy files from the folder.
• Read & Write: The user can see and copy files to and from the folder.
• Read Only: The user can view the contents of the folder but can’t copy files to it.
• Write Only (Drop Box): The user can copy files to the folder but can’t view its
contents.
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