#Smbup samba not starting how to

#Smbup samba not starting how to

I found this great tutorial on how to set things right. This guide did not got me running on OSX Lion (10.7).

Now exit out of the settings menu and your new network share should be there. Username is not case-sensitive but the password is. – Username and password has to be the same as specified on the Mac when you added SMB sharing. you don’t need to enter a capital ‘M’ if the shared folder is called ‘Movies’ – Share name is the name of the shared folder that you added on the Mac side. – Share IP should be the IP address of your Mac on the network that you took a note of previously – Display name can be whatever you like to identify each shared folder, (i.e.

– Click on options (the gears icon), then click ‘Network’ and ‘Add SMB Share’ – Make a note of the IP address under ‘File Sharing: On’ e.g. Check the box marked ‘Share files and folders using SMB (Windows), Then also check the box for the current user. Ensure the current user has full read/write access. – Check the box marked ‘File Sharing’ and add any folders you wish to share in the first panel. If anyone has any questions, I will be happy to assist, although I am no expert. I wrote this step-by-step while setting it up again at the same time to make sure nothing was left out, so this guide should be all correct and get most people’s sharing problems sorted, chaos theory aside. I tried to get SMB sharing working with WiiMC a few months ago but failed miserably, but I have managed to get it up and running this time round. Since there doesn’t seem to be much help out there for mac users so far, I decided to write this guide.