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Edit: Is this the solution? I don't remember having to do this before. Especially since it isn't set up this way on my MacBook. I put all the drives in the "Shared Folders" section of the Mac mini's Sharing preferences.

But I don't understand why I had to do that since I can see my MacBook's HD from the Mac mini without having it in my MacBook's Shared Folders section. What gives? How do I do it correctly? Though I guess it's fine. Time Machine doesn't seem to care that it's a Shared Folder.

Mainly the problem is now all the folders on those HD's on the mini show black "Shared Folder" banners. And I HATE those damn things. I want to get my drives to show up without having to make them all Shared. Help anyone? Please?

Last edited by Jasoco (2009-02-26 4:07 am)

They're not servers. It's just a networked computer with a HD. Surely you guys have computers with connected HD's that you mount once in a while. I can't mount any HD from the mini. Just the user folder and my shared folder over there, which are both completely useless as all the data, files, media, backups, are on the three connected HD's.

I used to be able to just mount the connected HD. Now I have to make it shared to work? It's as if the computer thinks I'm logging in as someone else. I didn't change a damn thing and I am mad because I hate those horrible black badges Shared folders get to show off. I'm just glad they don't show on the MacBook's side of the network, just the Mac mini's.

Last edited by Jasoco (2009-02-26 3:44 pm)

Before:

I had my HD's connected to my Mac mini. When browsing Network on my MacBook, I could access all the HD's including the internal Mac mini HD and mount them to my MacBook's desktop.

I did not need to, nor did I, set the drives to be "Shared Folders". They simply showed up with no problem and mounted with no problem. VLC, Movist, QuickTime all had no problem playing videos across them. Backing up via Time Machine had no problem.

Now: All of a sudden the drives do not show up in my MacBook's Network>Mac_mini drive listing. All I get there is my user folder and the user folder's Shared folder.

I had to set all three HD's to be "Shared Folders" in order to get them to show up there. Something I never ever had to do before nor do I want to do it because my name on this MacBook is the same as it is on the Mac mini, I should be able to access all the files on any drive I want as long as I am logged in identically. I hate those ugly black space wasting "Shared Folder" banners. I don't use my Public folder as I am one person with two computers and I want my data to be shared between them without having to set up special permissions. Like it was before! Why the hell it changed I don't know, I didn't even do a single thing.

Is there some setting somewhere? *sigh*

Have I been riding on a bug that worked in my favor for so long and now the bug has been "fixed"? Why would it stop now? I didn't turn anything off... or on.

But that's what I don't understand. I never had to make my drives "Shared" before. They all just showed up on my MacBook's Network list because the username for both machines is the same.

It's not that I don't want them shared. It's that damn ugly space wasting Shared banner if you want to get technical. Surely they could have come up with a better way to brand a folder as shared. Maybe an icon in the title bar or status bar. Not another 30 pixels of lost vertical space.

I'm just going to forget about it for now as it looks like I was riding on a fluke all along and there doesn't look to be anything I'll be able to change it. I'll just have to put up with that banner for now. Which is easy since it only appears on the Mac mini side. Not the MacBook. If it showed up on the MacBook's side too, I'd probably throw a fit.

Last edited by Jasoco (2009-02-27 2:18 pm)