smbd

what does “smbd” do and should you allow it to have access to mail, messages, safari, home, time machine backups and certain admin settings on your Mac. It was checked with full disk access on my Mac and not certain why????

iMac, OS X 10.10

Posted on Jun 15, 2020 12:29 PM

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4 replies

BDAqua

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Jun 15, 2020 1:32 PM in response to Tana113

smbd is the server daemon that provides file sharing and printing services to other computer clients.

So, do you have File Sharing set up in Sys Prefs>Sharing?

BDAqua

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Jun 20, 2020 1:51 PM in response to Tana113

Any luck yet?

Tana113 Author

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Jun 21, 2020 10:09 PM in response to BDAqua

I just wanted to know what it was and if I should be sharing my files with it. Thanks for the info

BDAqua

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Jun 22, 2020 12:28 PM in response to Tana113

OK, take care my friend. :)

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