#Add windows user to access samba smbup mac os x#

Since I’m assuming a simple share, I’ve used my own user account, but you could of course create an account specifically for this purpose.Ĭlick “ Manage Users” and select the user you’d like to add.Įnter the password and click “ Add user“, rinse and repeat if needed for other users – for a simple share you’ll only need one user, specially when “guest access” will be allowed.

#Add windows user to access samba smbup mac os x#

Now that we have at least one user, time to add the folder or drive we would like to share – this can be on the internal harddisk of your Mac or on an external drive.Ĭlick “ Add new Shared Drive” and select the drive or folder you’d like to share.Īfter selecting your drive or folder, you will see something like this: #SMB MAC OS X MAVERICKS PASSWORD# This is a very nice post and a fantastic tutorial for SMBUp. Would you mind if I linked it from SMBUP’s page? I had some instructions but I’d recommend yours over mine any time. There’s a few common problems that people face. Most come from the fact the SMBUp tries to do some stuff that wasn’t designed to be automated in a front-end, especially for automations on OS X. Most of these are covered in the FAQ linked in the App page, but that tends to be missed. SMBUp, as you outlined, doesn’t start with the OS, but the Samba services should. If when you open SMBUp the “LED” is green, then Samba was already running. There’s no need to open SMBUp unless you want to do changes, start/stop the service or check the status. The Protocol is called SMB (or CIFS) and is owned by Microsoft, “Samba” is an open source implementation of this protocol.

Apple used Samba until Samba changed licenses to one incompatible with Apple’s policies.