WINXP can see all folders in Snow Leopard

omela · #1 October 2nd, 2009, 11:17 AM

Hi all

I have small problem with sharing in Snow Leopard

When I turn ON File Sharing (SMB) all Win XP PC in my Workgroup can see ALL my folders and drives - not only Public Folder.

I've checked several times - they not marked as Shared individually.
What can be wrong? I want only Public Folder to be shared.
I have Parallels installed.

kemamo · #2 October 12th, 2009, 11:32 PM

I have the exact problem. I've turned off guest accounts, made sure permissions on the folders were correct. The only way users can see this data is if smb is bringing them in as an admin. The permissions are 700 on the folder and owned by me.

The only solution I have at the moment is to turn off smb. I haven't found any other threads related to this yet.

Have you made any progress?

omela · #3 October 13th, 2009, 02:19 AM

nope - my solution is to turn sharing off

Do you use Parallels?

kemamo · #4 October 13th, 2009, 09:04 AM

Nope, I use vmware server but its not installed on snow leopard yet. This is independent of VM issues.

I was fine with leopard, but with my snow leopard upgrade, it's not working. I assume this is a reaction to all the threads I've seen about SMB not working at all. I guess to get that working, they just opened everything up.

I've tried setting the users as standard, share only, changing permissions on the shares etc.

The very suspicious thing, if you go look at your shared folder with terminal.
ls -l /somefolder/yoursharedfoldername, you'll probably see drwx------ so the only account that should be even able to browse that folder is the owner of it, and root. So my logic is that the smb server is running as root and when the authentication happens with the smb passwords you've set, it just lets you have access to all the smb shares. Certainly not how it should be working.....

Now that I've typed that statement and started down that thought path. I looked at /var/db/samba/smb.shares and that doesn't look right. It's been a few years since I set up smb from scratch....I think this will be the fix. I'll post mine when I figure it out.

Can anyone else test this and see what you're seeing?