Os x enable file sharing

No reboot or logout necessary. The System Preferences : Sharing panel will not show the status of File Sharing in real time when you run these commands. If you have this panel open, after starting the SMB, you must first click on the Options… button to see that indeed, Share files and folders using SMB is selected.

When you click Done on that sheet, then you will see that the main File Sharing is now also selected. Same approach when you disable SMB from the command line.

Jul 15, AM. Page content loaded. Perhaps there is something interfering with your Mac. My file sharing SMB still runs after a restart. This is from long ago, but perhaps some of the fixes in the comments might help: terminal - Enable SMB sharing from command line - Ask Different. Thanks for hint with the panel, I could get the current status when I just reopen the system preferences.

But the strange thing: Running launchctl unload and load and both AppleFileServer and smbd will restart the service, but restarting it using the system preferences panel will "work". I'm using my iPad to open a shared folder with an app using smb. Is there a way for a complete reset? Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Thanks for the info but the problem is the password, with the current versions of windows you require a live account for the user account where on windows 7 you could just create a basic password that I would share with anyone without the threat of any of my online accounts being compromised.

I only had a password on my Windows 7 PC specifically so I could share on the network. I found a work around anyway by creating a second offline account where I could do the same as what I did with windows 7, it's a bit of an inconvenience but it works at least now.

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question June 28, p. In setting up remote log-in, the system may show the IP address but you can also use the local bonjour name.

In addition, be sure at least one user is permitted to access the SSH service. Once enabled, you can log into the system using an SSH client, which in most Unix terminals will be a command similar to the following: ssh username hostname In most cases the host name will either be the fully qualified domain name of the server if one is assigned to it, or it can be the IP address of the server.

You have the option for the command-line interface with the "SFTP" command, which runs very similar to the "FTP" command and supports the same "put" and "get" commands for managing files, or you can use a client application like Cyberduck that supports SFTP. This option is likely the easier to manage for most people since client applications can store presets, passwords, and other settings that make your connections easier to do.

SSH Filesystem The second option for connecting to SSH services for file transfer is to use the SSHFS protocol, which functions similarly to the Secure FTP protocol but mounts the remote server as a device and presents it to the system and applications as a disk, which can make the connection more seamless.

To do this, you will need to install FUSE for OS X, which allows you to use plug-ins for supporting numerous filesystem types instead of relying on native filesystem support in the OS X kernel. If you use a slash for this folder, then the remote filesystem root will be used, which may be convenient in some cases for full access to the system.