Sharing an SD card or USB stick across the network

I'm sure you didn't intend that to sound like a smart-*** Apple Fan Boy answer, but either way, it didn't really help.

It just came across in a kind of patronising way that if a Mac won't allow me to do something then I darn-well shouldn't want to do it. I'm sorry but that's rather lame and if Apple really think that way, then no wonder they're a minority player in the desktop market, because users' needs cannot be so easily pre-prescribed.

It's a fairly basic request. My computer should be able to share a stick or drive across my network.

What's the point in allowing me to add it to the Shared Folder list if I can't add users to it and share it?

This doesn't appear to help with the drives I've tried. I can add the folder, and even subfolders, but I still can't assign users to them so they're never shared. But thanks for actually trying to help

Hi Woodmeister50 that's a fair point. So brimming with enthusiasm I used Get Info and enabled sharing on every single file and folder on the whole stick, folder by folder. Guess what difference it made. Yep. None. But once again I appreciate the time you spent trying to help.

EDIT: forgot to mention, when I use Get Info on any file or folder, it just says "you can read and write" under 'Sharing & Permissions' at the bottom, even with the 'Shared Folder' checkbox checked further up. There are no options to add users. This obviously is the problem, but I don't know how to get round it.

Hi Old Toad. I have a Netgear 2200 and you're right it does permit this function, but for my particular purpose I'd prefer to share my memory stick via my Mac so that at least my Mac is accessing it directly.

I really thought it would take me seconds to enable all this. I am amazed how this 'World's Most Advanced Desktop Operating System' is making a meal out of such a banal almost trivial functionality.

Hi Toad I've tried that but it still does not allow people to access files or folders on my attached USB drive.

Getting nowhere fast I'm afraid.

It looks to be something that Mac's just can't do.

So why on earth Get Info and Prefs > Sharing allows me to check it as shared and add the drive and/or its subfolders as Shared Folders is anyone's guess.