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OSX smb file sharing shares whole drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Golovko" data-source="post: 856267" data-attributes="member: 104637"><p>1. As this article points out: <a href="http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090520174215872" target="_blank">Tutorial: File sharing in OS X - MacFixIt</a>, if your OS X account has Administrator privileges (i.e. is a member of the admin group), then accessing the computer via SMB will also allow the account access to all folders, which is why the hard drives show up as shares. If you want to test this, open a terminal and type "groups". You should see "admin" somewhere on the line of groups.</p><p></p><p>2. I would be surprised if this is actually happening w/o authentication, this would be a serious problem. Perhaps your username/password are mirrored between the two machines? This would allow the authentication to occur transparently (convenient), but would give the impression that your OS X machine is wide open to the rest of the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Golovko, post: 856267, member: 104637"] 1. As this article points out: [url=http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090520174215872]Tutorial: File sharing in OS X - MacFixIt[/url], if your OS X account has Administrator privileges (i.e. is a member of the admin group), then accessing the computer via SMB will also allow the account access to all folders, which is why the hard drives show up as shares. If you want to test this, open a terminal and type "groups". You should see "admin" somewhere on the line of groups. 2. I would be surprised if this is actually happening w/o authentication, this would be a serious problem. Perhaps your username/password are mirrored between the two machines? This would allow the authentication to occur transparently (convenient), but would give the impression that your OS X machine is wide open to the rest of the world. [/QUOTE]
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