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A sharing only user account allows a user to access specific shared folders on your Mac. If you use your Mac for file sharing at home or at work, you may want to create accounts for users so they can access files on the computer but do nothing else.
To do this, select Sharing Only from the New Account menu. Fill in the rest of the information as above, but to provide access to selected folders, you must then go to the Sharing preference pane in System Preferences. See this Apple support document for more information on file sharing. Finally, you will notice a Guest User listed in the sidebar. Select this user and check Allow guests to log in to this computer.
When the guest account feature is active, any guest to your home or your office can sit down at this Mac and click on Guest on the login screen to be able to use the computer. None of their files will be saved; when they log out everything will be deleted. But they can browse the web, configure Mail to use their email account temporarily, send instant messages, and more. And unless you check the option to allow them to connect to shared folders, they will have no access to any of the files on the computer.
The Get Info panel is the starting place for the setting of file and folder permissions. Notice the "everyone" user group designation. By default, every user account has full Read and Write permissions. Basically, this gives every user account the right to go into the Shared Folder and create files and folders. However, this would be contrary to the purpose of utilizing the Shared Folder.
A user who doesn't intend to share his files, should store them inside his own Home Folder. Refer to the article referenced above for more information on using the Home Folder. Incidentally, it's important to note that "everyone" includes other users on the network, if you have set your Sharing System Settings to allow this. In this case, the Shared Folder behaves like any other folder with respect to how files can be moved and copied.
Because, by default, other users are given Read Only permission for all but their own files and folders, those users are able to open and read files, and to open folders, that belong to other user accounts. However, "Read Only" means that there can be no modifications or deletions except to ones own files and folders. From this point on, the copy will be owned by this user.
If, within the Shared Folder, one user attempts to modify or delete a file or folder belonging to another user, OS X will display a warning and a request authentication.
Returning to my teaching scenario. To make things easier for myself, and because I am the only person who uses this MacBook Pro, there is a very practical change I make to the permissions settings. Let me explain. As already mentioned, on my Mac I have assigned a distinct user account for each of my courses. One sure way to exchange files between computers is to set up a shared folder that another Mac user or a Windows user will be able to access. Aside from being able to share files and folders with others, you can edit file sharing permissions to only give read access to some users and read and write access to others.
Learn how to create a share folder on macOS to easily share your files with others. Before you can create and use a shared folder, you need to turn on file sharing on your Mac.
To do that, follow the steps below. You can then close the Sharing dialog box, as well as the System Preferences window. Once you enable file sharing on your computer, you can create a shared folder for other users to access. To create a shared folder on macOS, follow the steps below.
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