Heya,

Well, this is a real problem. I just found out that my Mac –which was upgraded to Lion in January– is shewing its entire contents to the network!

I opened a Windows Explorer window on my W7 workstation and found out that the entired contents of system drive (which I'll just call 'Mac HD' for the sake of an example) were displayed on the Windows machine. This wasn't the case with Snow Leopard: then only the shared folders were shewn and Mac HD was NOT a shared folder. What gives here?

Even the contents of folders that are set as private on the MBP were fully accessible on the Windows machine. I have just disabled file sharing on the Mac completely for the time being (I can still mount the PC's own shared folders, but now the PC cannot access anything on the Mac).

Is this fixable? Can it be set back to the way it used to be on SL? Or do I just have to either live with the MBP's file sharing disabled or go back to SL?

TIA for any useful input.

Under Shared Folders there's only my public folder and my Pictures folder. Under users there's myself, Staff and Everyone. I have full permissions, Staff has Read Only and Everyone Write Only (drop box).

"Everyone" should be read only, surely. That's the rest of the household. Actually, if I add dropbox, it autoselects Everyone no access... And really thats OK, because wherever I add something to dropbox its going to go everywhere else too.

I think maybe we also need more info about what you want to share. Seems like you are wanting to share with more people than just yourself and your other computers.

Originally Posted by thatfilthyspringbok

When you opened the Windows Explorer window did it ask for a username and password and did you enter yours?

No. It opened things automatically.

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Originally Posted by kyte

"Everyone" should be read only, surely. That's the rest of the household. Actually, if I add dropbox, it autoselects Everyone no access... And really thats OK, because wherever I add something to dropbox its going to go everywhere else too.

I think maybe we also need more info about what you want to share. Seems like you are wanting to share with more people than just yourself and your other computers.

I'd actually like to have 'Everyone' set to no access, but when I do that, not even the Dropbox is accessible from Windows: seems like an all or nothing proposition.

Essentially, I'd like to share the Dropbox only, and maybe some folders where I need to be putting stuff into from the PC, one of them is the Pictures folder; but I'd like to be able to set permissions on a folder-basis.

I have disabled SMB sharing and now the Windows machine can't see the Mac. Doesn't bother me much at this particular moment because the Mac can still mount the PC's shared folders and I can copy stuff from them to my Mac. I don't think I can write to them, though.

Have you got any guest accounts setup? I've just tested mine and I can't view the hard drive by connecting without a username and password even with the drive set to Everyone: Read Only

Just disabled the Guest account and still the same thing.

And, no, there's only one user in this Mac (not counting the root, of course).

Have you tried deleting the guest account completely?

It doesn't let me delete it: the minus sign is grayed out.

Hit the padlock in the bottom left of the window to unlock the pane so you can delete it.

Also, are you sure you haven't saved credentials on the Windows 7 PC? Try changing the password on the account or adding a password if you don't have one already.

Edit: Scratch that, just checked and you can't delete the guest account. Sorry, I was convinced that I had.

Yeah, I tried.