Leopard Simplifies File Sharing

A friend has an external disk containing NTFS and FAT32 volumes. Under
Tiger, he was able to use AFP to share those volumes; however, with
Leopard, those volumes were no longer accessible via file sharing.
Experimenting here with disk images, I see the similar behavior.
Volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended were available for mounting
remotely; FAT and even plain HFS volumes weren't. It appears that AFP
in Leopard only works with HFS+ volumes and folders residing on those
volumes.

At 6:10 on 6-11-2007, Jim Kessler wrote:
> And indeed, we can't connect to our NetWare (AFP-enabled) data
> servers because Mac users send their passwords in cleartext, which
> Leopard doesn't allow. Our networking people are working on this.
> Do you have any suggestions?

Just saw this hint, which looks like it would solve your problem:

<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750>

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=> Jolin

TidBITS feedback,

 > In my test, my startup volume's icon shifted from a hard disk to a
 > folder with a red circle icon on it with a horizontal line. If I'd
 > restarted the machine at that point, I would not like to think about
 > what might have happened. Adding the Administrators group back in
 > restored the drive's icon and access.

My 20" iMac with a fresh install of Leopard started acting flaky, and I
noticed the "no permission" icon on my boot disk (folder with small red
circle bisected by horizontal white line). At the time, I did not know
how or when this had happened. It rapidly got to the point where the
computer was completely non-responsive. Menus were coming up blank.
Applications would not quit. I could not even Shut Down from the Apple
menu. I had to power down with the power button.

When I powered back up, the boot sequence stalled at a blue screen just
after the gray Apple logo with the timer and just before the login
dialog box appears. It would not reboot in that condition. I had to do
an Archive and Install to get back in.

Later, when the problem occurred again, I figured out that it was linked
to my deleting the Administrators user from the File Sharing control
panel. That time, I determined a way to change permissions in the
command line after a single-user boot (CMD-S during boot) using Unix
commands.

Then, after reproducing the problem again, I discovered that I could
restore functionality without rebooting, if I immediately added the
Administrators user back. However, if this is not done right away, I
think it becomes impossible, as access seems to deteriorate rapidly.

This clearly has to be considered a bad bug, and I have reported it to
Apple. It should not be possible to render your computer non-functional
when deleting users from File Sharing. That is just plain stupid.

I also fully agree with all of your "Six Things I Hate about Leopard"
column. I also have this freaky thing where I seem to be able to access
my iMac's boot volume from a Windows XP laptop over wireless (SMB)
without ever entering a username or password--the files are just visible
without an authentication dialog box ever appearing on the laptop. With
all of these problems, I am dumping Leopard and going back to Tiger.

Steve