Comments on: FTP Only Accounts Under Mac OS X Leopard

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:11:26 +0000

Nice writeup. I made it thru no problem and have been using the setup for a while.

Just yesterday, I also downloaded PureFTPd Manager and that works great as well. (In case others head this way and are a little more afraid of terminal. A GUI is sometimes nice.)

By: tbrown

tbrown — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:56:28 +0000

thanks for re writing this. it’s explain much better

By: nic

nic — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:28:17 +0000

You need to enable File Sharing. Then click the Options button on the bottom right. From there you can select Share files and folders using FTP.

By: julian

julian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:00:37 +0000

i dont have FTP in the Sharing under System Preferences. Also, how would I connect to the FTP? What do I put to connect to it using and FTP program?

By: nic

nic — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:22:24 +0000

If you are making an FTP acct, you need to keep everything the same across the board. If you are making an acct for music, like I did, then you need to use ‘music’ instead of ‘fred’ as the account name.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:17:29 +0000

my previous comment was for the other tutorial this one was based on– sorry for the confusion.

in terms of this one, there does seem to be a problem. the user created in terminal is “fred”, but the in the accounts manager its “music”. what gives?

By: nic

nic — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:06:01 +0000

NetInfo Manager was removed in Leopard. All the stuff you would do with NetInfo Manager can be done thru the Advanced Options pane in User Preferences.

The above instructions are for doing it without NetInfo Manager.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:52:11 +0000

whats odd, is I don’t have NetInfo Manager.
I can’t explain it, but its simply not there.
perhaps it was replaced in 10.52 with something else?