SMB users on 10.4.7

[mmgareth]

Hi

Can anyone give some best practice guidance on setting up my Mac so that my DVD player can connect to it using SMB for streaming movies and audio.

I have enabled the smb service in 'System Preferences > Sharing', and created a new user called 'dvdplayer'. Ideally, I wanted an SMB only user, not a system user - is this possible?

If I cannot have a stand alone SMB user, how can I set the OS X user 'dvdplayer' to have its home directory on an external firewire drive?

Hope someone can help.

Many thanks

MM

[eric2006]

Try using Sharepoints. With it, you can choose what directories to share. I think you can create file-sharing only users with sharepoints as well.

[mmgareth]

Thanks, this looks pretty useful :-)

Best


MM