If you have two or more computers on your home Wi-Fi network, you've probably needed to transfer data from one to the other. Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes this problem easy with the help of an app. AirDrop, the use of which does not need to be described at length. In short, you just drag the file into the folder AirDrop, where you can see other computers running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion connected to your local Wi-Fi network. When you want to transfer files across different operating systems, it is no longer possible AirUse Drop. In this case, you need to create a Shared Folder to which you add the files and folders you want to share with another computer.
First, enable sharing itself
To create a so-called Shared folder, you must first enable file sharing in the Mac OS X operating system. Choose System Preferences - Sharing and select the folders you want to share. In addition to folders and files, Mac OS X also allows you to share your screen, printer, scanner, and much more. Whatever you choose to share from the Share menu, the process is always the same. So, for example, we select Shared files and then select the folder or folders that we want to share with other computers in the Wi-Fi network. Now it is necessary to choose which users have access to the given folder and what they can do in it. Create a new user using the plus button and assign a username and password. To access the shared folder, the user must enter their credentials that you created. It is possible to assign rights to individual users that determine what actions they can do with the shared folder, the options are as follows.
- Read only – Other users can only read the files, they cannot save other files in that folder.
- Enrollment only – Other users can only save files to the folder. They cannot edit or delete them.
- Reading and writing – Other users can read and write files. In this case, the folder behaves the same as a folder on your own computer.
If you want to share folders and files with operating system users Microsoft Windows, it is necessary to enable the so-called SMB sharing, which can be found under Options in System Preferences - Sharing.
Transfer easily and quickly
If you now connect to a local Wi-Fi network, other users connected to that network will see your computer in Finderin the Sidebar. If you don't see computers on your local network and you are sure that they have file and folder sharing enabled, you need to enable the display of nearby computers in the SideBar. Open Finder – Preferences – Sidebar and select the Shared item to enable the display of shared computers and servers.
Now all you have to do is move the desired files and folders you want to share to the folder you selected as shared. When you move files to a shared folder, users in the local Wi-Fi network have access to them, through which the file transfer takes place.
Maybe a dumb question, but is it possible to set up sharing between OS Win and MAC OS Lion? :-)
Yes, it is part of the article
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The article just came, I was wondering how to do it when on MacBookI want 10.6 and on the iMac 10.7. It's already working ok
I'm glad he helped, that's exactly how we have it at home, I have SL and my wife Lion and everything works as it should.
AirAccording to my experience, Drop is unusable for transferring large files and not at all for transferring settings from/to another MAC machine.
I have such a problem. PC at work Windows XP, Vista + me Apple with Lion. From your computer (Apple) I can see the folders Windows and I can write to them but Windows the user can only see my computer and cannot connect to me. When I set to share "anyone", including writing, they only see my computer and they get a connection error. If I set up a new user on my Mac according to your procedure from the video, when activating this user in the "options" menu, I cannot check the created user because I have the wrong password (it also requires confirmation of the password that I have for the given created by the user). I don't have the wrong password, so I'm out of it. The only one who can activate is myself as the administrator of the computer and that's it Windows users can access me only through my login data, which are administrative and private. Sharing takes place via ethernet and I have Wi-Fi completely turned off.
For Mark
The same thing happens to me. Riesenie is to create an account in syspreferences:
1. in system preferences open users & groups
2. add a new account in users & groups – switch the New account parameter from Standard to Sharing only. Add username and password.
So you have created a user and it should work.
Stano: thank you very much, that's it.onecne works. From the side Apple it's a pain in the ass how to set up sharing. Suma sumarum – the video that describes the procedure of how to set up sharing is not true? Because according to the video it is not really possible and the only correct procedure was stated by Stano.