Say I create an admin account on OSX machine A, and then turn on personal file sharing.

I put some files into my public shared folder, then I use "show info" to only allow access for certain non admin user(s) of OSX machine A to the shared folder. (I turned off guess access by setting "none" for "everyone")

now I go to OSX machine B, log on and use "Go-->connect to server" to find OSX machine A. I look for the public shared folder of Machine A and click on it.

Will it prompt me for a username/password that belongs to the "allowed" user(s) of Machine A?

If this works, I may have finally found a way to securely share my public folders.

meaning anyone who want to access my shared public folder will need to provide the username/password of allowed user on Machine A. Allowed Local user of machine A however, can simply use the finder to find my admin public folder and put whatever files they want into it.

basically, I'm creating a shared public folder with my admin account so that both the user of machine A and machine B can securely share files.


Did I win or loose horribly? can OSX do this?

Sounds reasonable. Why not try it out?