It’s not the first time I’ve run into architectural issues with OS X’s post-obsolete permissions framework; although 10.6 is exceptionally bad things have been more or less downhill since 10.3.Back at the corporation we have Microsoft SharePoint – or whatever it’s called now. Microsoft keeps rebranding it to hide the bad news. SharePoint makes OS X 2010 look relatively benign.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how well things work with home Windows 7 network shares. I suspect it’s better than OS X, but I don’t think the Windows home file share appliance market is doing well.<\/p>\n
I’m getting that old King Canute and the unstoppable tide<\/a> feeling. I’m using something that’s completely broken, but the ether isn’t filled with the screams of fellow geeks. The path I’m on has clearly been abandoned; the days of being able to share files with one’s wife, but not the kids, on a home machine have passed.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, there’s no clear alternative. We’re in tech churn — the turbulent white water between technology transitions. We could do all our home file sharing using Google Docs, but, frankly, gDrive sucks and backup is a pain. We could use a drive hanging off the Time Capsule perhaps, but I doubt that’s much better and, ironically, you can’t easily back up a drive hanging off a Time Capsule. We could use MobileMe, but … sigh<\/a>. I could buy a Windows machine to use as an SMB share, but that’s a maintenance pain. Everything I read about OS X Server tells me not to go there.<\/p>\n Maybe Apple will deliver a home file share appliance this year with integrated backup. I’m not holding my breath though.The bottom line is that there’s no good solution for home-based group file sharing in 2010 on OS X, and probably not any platform. It’s a tech regression – we’re stuck until something better emerges. That will probably take years.<\/p>\n Twenty years ago we knew how to share files on a Mac. You created users and groups. When you accessed a share you entered a username and password. You could save a shortcut to the desktop and MacOS would store the credentials.Things weren’t that much harder with Windows 95 a few years later. That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}