I have few media files in my Mac which I want to stream on my Android phone. I have enabled File Sharing and enabled both smb and afp protocol. When I check in VLC for Android app, I can see my Mac's name there. However when I try to connect it, it shows me a login prompt asking me to enter username and password.
I tried my Mac's only username and password, but it didn't do anything. The username have spaces in it, so I tried some combinations (such as all lowercase, no spaces etc.), to no avail.
For eg. If my username on my mac is Abc Xyz, I tried Abc Xyz, Abc%20Xyz, abcxyz, AbcXyz etc. But it showed me empty directories.
So is there any way I can make that login prompt work? I even tried with giving Everyone access to the shared folders, but it still didn't work. By not working, I mean, the VLC displayed error The directory is empty or a login prompt again.
PS: I am on macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and the user have admin access.
Best Answer
You can just enable guests to access shared folders. Go to Users and Groups and give access to Guests to Shared folders/Sharing.