Dave, I remember in MacOS 9 that it was pretty easy to disable guest access to your Macintosh, but in Mac OS X I can’t find any clue how to change this so that while I offer file sharing off my server, it’s only for people with actual accounts. Can you shed some light on this?

You’re right and I don’t really understand why Apple made it seemingly impossible to disable guest access while still running file sharing.

Fortunately, if you’re willing to muck about in the innards of your system, guest access can be disabled from within the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal).

The first step is to…

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