Other users will no longer be able to log in as Guest and access user Public folders. (If it is currently disabled, this will start it up for you.) You'll be asked for your admin-level username and password.Ĭlick the Restart AppleFileServer button to restart Personal File Sharing. In the Miscellaneous Properties section, uncheck the box next to Allow Guess Access.Ĭlick the Update AppleFileServer Properties button. To disable Guest Access, launch SharePoints and then follow these steps:Ĭlick on the AFS Properties tab (AppleFileServer Properties in older versions of SharePoints). I personally prefer the preference pane version (it seems more intuitive to me to work with Personal File Sharing settings in System Preferences), but I'm going to use the application version for this discussion because the screenshots are clearer. (It also has other capabilities you may have used it in Chapter 1 to set up a new group.) It's available as both a preference pane and an application. A few other, simpler, utilities out there allow you to toggle Guest Access, but SharePoints does so much more, and I'll use it for so many of the examples in this section, that I consider it to be the Swiss Army Knife of Personal File Sharing utilities.
If Guest Access concerns you, you can disable it (and re-enable it at any time) using the donationware SharePoints ( ). Although this is not a major security issue-the only "damage" a Guest user can do is to download copies of files in Public folders-you may not want to completely open up your Public files to the … um, public.
Although this feature is quite useful for providing access to certain files for remote users without having to create local accounts for them, it also means that anyone who knows your IP address can potentially connect as a Guest user and access Public files. Disabling Guest Access to Personal File Sharingīy default OS X's Personal File Sharing allows Guest users-users who don't have their own account on your computer but can still connect and access a limited group of files (those in Public folders).
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