Otak Atik [dot] Com » sharing folder http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:06:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hide Your Shared Folder http://www.otakatik.com/hide-your-shared-folder/ http://www.otakatik.com/hide-your-shared-folder/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 03:36:19 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=92 If we share our folder to other clients or friends in local network, it can to make a fun work. Because you can share your files or folders to your office partner so you don’t necessary to copy it via flask disk. But some times, you want to hide your shared folder from your all of your friends such as a data folder. You want to access your shared folder from other computer but it’s not exposed to public users.
You can make it with a little trick.

  1. Set your folder to shared folder first by right click your folder, and then click Sharing and Security
  2. Click Sharing tab, click Share this folder option, and if you want to hide it, give it name and end it by $ character. For example, if you want give it name ImageCD, add it with $ character so you must enter its name: ImageCD$. Then press Enter.
  3. To access your folder from other computer, click Start –> Run menu, enter \\computer_name\shared_folder_name$ then press Enter. In my case, I enter \\farrel\imagecd$.
  4. Then your shared folder will open.
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If you’re a new Mac OS X user, maybe you confused when you’ll connect to your office network that using Windows Sharing system and want to open the shared folder. It’s maybe a small problem but for the new user maybe it’s their (including me) headache source :) OK, I’ll share how to access Windows sharing folder from your Mac OS X system….
Make sure your destination PC has been set the sharing folder, the mark the shared folder is you’ll see the hand icon in the shared folder.
Windows sharing appearance

And how access it from your Mac OS X computer, just follow these:
1. Click Go – Connect to Server on Finder menu.
Go - Connect menu

2. And type smb://destination_computer_name or smb://destination_computer_ip_address on the Server Address input, for example : smb://server-sql or smb://192.168.1.1.
Connect dialog

3. You can add the address to your list with click the + button.
Add button

4. And it is connecting…
Connecting...

5. If you’re access that folder for the first time you will confirm for the Workgroup name, User name and Password and just fill it with your office Workgroup name and user name/password fill with user name that registered in destination computer (Windows user name).
Authentication

7. And list folder that shared in the destination computer will show up.
Shared folder list

8. Just choose it, and then click OK button.
Select shared folder

9. If it is connected, and then you can access it through the Finder.
Result
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