regarding getting your SMB sharing connection from linux working...
Samba no more, mount.cifs needs extra options, "nounix,sec=ntlmssp"
Don't use the linux gui to connect, have bro open a terminal and try these commands
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amitsbrother@linux:~$
amitsbrother@linux:~$ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
...
amitsbrother@linux:~$ mkdir /mnt/mavericks_smb
amitsbrother@linux:~$ mount.cifs //172.17.8.212/smb_share /mnt/mavericks_smb/ -o user=amitsbrother,password=trustno1,nounix,sec=ntlmssp
amitsbrother@linux:~$
amitsbrother@linux:~$ mkdir /mnt/mavericks_smb_dup
amitsbrother@linux:~$ mount -t cifs //172.17.8.212/smb_share /mnt/mavericks_smb-dup -o username=amitsbrother,password=trustno1,nounix,sec=ntlmssp
Once this is working, you can create a script for your brother to automatically mount when it is executed from the gui. Basically, the script is just the mount point creation, and the cifs connection to the smb server... so 2 or 3 lines including the shebang.
Make sharing work now with no passwords
To make it super simple, I'd enable web sharing on the Mac, and put the files you want to share to the Linux box in a folder in ~/Sites/a_folder/ . Then give your brother the address that it tells is your personal web sharing address in the Sharing Preferences pane when you enabled Web Sharing. Tell your brother to open a browser and put in that address; it will give him a directory listing as long as there is no index.html file in there. He can download files with his browser. This is one way sharing, from the Mac to the linux box, and will work fine as long as there are no files over 4GB (unless apache fixed that issue and didn't tell me about it). I believe directory listing is enabled by default on the Mac apache2 server.
To share in the other direction, from linux to Mac, you could do the same from the Linux box:
sudo apt-get install apache2
You can enable directory listings on the Linux apache2 server with instructions here. Those instructions inadvertantly also cover how to get the apache2 server up and running. Then you need the ip address of the Linux box, and the relative location from the apache root to see the files in your Mac's browser.
This shouldn't take 5 minutes to set up 2 x 1-way sharing through browsers on both boxes, and relieves you from hacing to trouble-shoot the slightly more complex task of installing and configuring netatalk or running SMB sharing from the mac and getting the linux client to mount it, which isn't always a "it just works" situation, like running 2 apache2 servers is.
Thx douggro.
I've just finished solve my problem and you helped a lot. Os X Server was an easy solution. 20 minutes between download and success.
On Yosemite client I already created a groupe yesterday, that I basically called "Sharing".
With the file-sharing Options of OsX Server I had more options to set this groupe as I intended to do, and more particularly by spreading permissions to children files and folders.
OsXServer also allow you to create dedicated folder for groups which is a quite good solutions also. But didn't even needed it since the files-sharing options did really good !
So now my wife can access the server with dedicated rights, download stuff and PLEX catch newly arrived files, on the go !
Thx !
Best Answer
You can remove all the default shares easily from the system preferences. Search for sharing and then configure (by selecting and then pressing the - ) to remove each share you don’t want to be active.
Then you can leave sharing on and just add the specific shares you want.
Here is an article with a picture showing what you would select and then use the + - control below the shared folder to remove that specific share.
If you granted more permissions editing the config file and didn’t save a backup copy, you can recover an unmodified version of that from back up or from the installer / recovery HD as well.