Hi,

 

Is there a reason that folders i am creating on a disk are becoming assigned as a user share (on there own), even some of the invisible folders OSX creates are turning up as user shares. Its becoming REALLY annoying, lol.

 

I am running beta7 and have my (legit) user shares shared via AFP and SMB but the disks, parity and and cache not shared at all. The folders that are on disk5 (i have created them straight onto the disk) are turned automatically into shares and only appear via SMB unless otherwise set. It seems to happen when i change the security settings for my legit shares and as i'm playing around with TimeMachine atm, i'm doing that more than normal.

 

Very odd and really, really annoying :-s

 

Any ideas how i can stop this happening?

 

Thanks,

 

Rich

Hi,

 

Is there a reason that folders i am creating on a disk are becoming assigned as a user share (on there own), even some of the invisible folders OSX creates are turning up as user shares. Its becoming REALLY annoying, lol.

 

I am running beta7 and have my (legit) user shares shared via AFP and SMB but the disks, parity and and cache not shared at all. The folders that are on disk5 (i have created them straight onto the disk) are turned automatically into shares and only appear via SMB unless otherwise set. It seems to happen when i change the security settings for my legit shares and as i'm playing around with TimeMachine atm, i'm doing that more than normal.

 

Very odd and really, really annoying :-s

 

Any ideas how i can stop this happening?

 

Thanks,

 

Rich

All top level folders on disks automatically become user-shares.  You can then elect to not share them.  It is by design, it is not a bug.

Create a single top level directory that contains all of the files and directories that you're creating. Then you only have a single directory that you have to worry about not sharing.

Ah, thats good to know, the OSX created folders are a bit of a pain tho (maybe something that can be tackled in a later release?) as i'm getting shares called 'Network Trash Folder' and 'Temporary Items', which has come about since i've started using AFP.

 

What would you recommend with TimeMachine? I've set up TimeMachine to mount disk5 directly, as i was having trouble using shares (it took 5-10 mins to just 'make the disk available'), but now the sparsebundles are appearing as user shares which seems odd, lol, and if i create a top folder for them to go into, thats obviously creating a share again.

 

Any tricks i am missing?

I use a user share for TM so I don't have this problem. My laptops are using Wireless N and the mount time is not an issue. TM does not cause any work slowdown during mounting but I do notice it sometime during data transfer.

I'm having a few problems, with it.

 

I am also using an N network as well as gigabit lan, but if i use a share it takes +5 mins to 'make the disk available' (regardless of whether i'm using wireless N on my MBA of Gb lan on my iMac), which in turn hangs the mac 'on and off' until the disk is ready to go. Also the security settings don't seem to work for me either; I setup a share called 'Time Machine' played around with secure and private settings, both of which made no difference, meaning i could browse and change the content of the share as if it was set to public.

 

If i share disk5 over AFP for TM however, the disk is up and running in roughly 1 minute and the security settings work as they should. However now i have shares popping up for the sparsebundles and the OSX network folders 

 

What do you rekon!?