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A warning about SMB sharing and file security
You can check what shares others will see from your own mac, using
For example, I have the default setup with an additional share ("Mirrors") configured with SharePoints, and the smbclient -L command returns:
As you can see, it is advertising my Mirrors share, a couple of IPC services, all of my printers and my home directory. (It is showing my home directory because I entered my SMB password to smbclient).
Can your friend share the SMB share name that he connected to to see your whole computer? I tried the common default, "root", and that didn't work:
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