To disable (turn off) Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) file sharing, follow these steps: From the Apple menu, click System Preferences.; In the System Preferences window, click the Sharing icon in the third row. Share the files and folders on your Mac with others on your network. Share your entire Mac or allow specific users access to certain folders.
On Mac, you can turn on the File Sharing feature to share large volumes of files with mobile phones, Windows PC or other Mac computer. In this quick guide, we will show you how to set up file sharing and enable SMB sharing on Mac to share files with iPhone or iPad, access Mac SMB share from iPhone or iPad to copy files between them. Turn on file sharing and enable SMB sharing on Mac Click Apple menu from the top menu bar, choose System Preferences, then click Sharing. Click to select and enable File Sharing.
Click Options button, select ‘ Share files and folders using SMB‘. Select the user account that will be used to share files with other devices or users, enter the password for that user, then click OK. Connect Mac SMB server from iPhone iPad On your iPhone or iPad, you can use a SMB client app for iOS, such as, to access Mac SMB server from iPhone or iPad. In a related article, we showed using this SMB client app for iOS. It is almost the same to access SMB file share on Mac from an iPhone or iPad.
Run the iPhone explorer app, then tap the Add button at the top right corner, you will see a list of all supported devices and connections. Choose MacOS, scroll down to the Network Neighborhood section at the bottom, the SMB client app should be able to automatically find the Mac SMB server. Tap on your Mac computer name. Choose Registered User, then type in your Mac user account and its password to connect. Share files between Mac and iPhone iPad via SMB Now you have already connected to Mac SMB server from iPhone or iPad. You can go back to the home screen of the SMB client app on iOS device, find and access your Mac SMB server from the Connections section.
Open, select and copy the share files or folders saved on Mac from iPhone, and paste them to a local folder on iPhone. Or copy files and folders from iPhone iPad to Mac SMB server. Its very easy and straightforward.
. Disable Mac OS X (10.5 and 10.6) File Sharing To disable (turn off) Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) file sharing, follow these steps:. From the Apple menu, click System Preferences. In the System Preferences window, click the Sharing icon in the third row. This icon is circled in white in the following graphic:. You will see the Sharing window, which looks similar to the one below:.
Confirm that the checkbox in front of File Sharing in the left-hand column does not contain a check mark. If it does, click to remove it. Removing a check mark will disable file sharing on your computer, which will make your computer more secure. Close the Sharing window.
Last updated December 17, 2009.