File sharing to Win

[batmanuel]

OK, so i got all these mp3s I want to share out to my other machines. Apple's built-in file sharing is not cutting it for me... I need SMB/CIFs or something that the stupid windows machines can handle (so not AFP, and not HTTP/FTP/SCP--I want mounted drive).

So, with Win file sharing, is there a way to share a single directory:
a) without creating a user specifically for sharing,
b) without sharing out the entire /home/username/ directory,
c) without installing additional software?

Xamba seems to be no longer maintained for 10.3--and that was cake for sharing. Any alternative to just regular old PITA Samba?

[Chairman_Kaga]

Are your windows machines all in the same workgroup? Which OS? XP?

With XP or 2000 and in the same workgroup, you should be able to create a share at the directory level with access to all relatively easily. Right click on the directory, properties/sharing.

Then from another machine, just network map a free drive letter to \\machine\sharename


Honestly not sure how well that works on anything pre 2000.

[batmanuel]

I want to share a drive *from* the Mac (where I have mad disk space) and mount it on the Windows machines.

Mounting the other way is a piece of cake... and how I had it set up until I ripped all my cds to mp3 and ran out of disk space :)

So, I have a directory (say, /home/sullo/Desktop/mp3) on the mac, I want to share it out via SMB/CIFs so that the XP machines can mount it. Everything I have tried in the mac shares out /home/sullo -- which is not what I want (heck, even a sub-directory of that would be ok, but I dont' want to share my whole home dir).

ideas?

[AnalogKid]

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/18/samba.html

About 1/2 way down the page.

[batmanuel]

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/18/samba.html

About 1/2 way down the page.

Thanks AK... that pointed me to the right help. I have it shared, requires a login, but doesn't share my home directory... I knew there had to be a little samba magic I could use ;)