A small gotcha with OS X Leopard file sharing
I was trying to share a folder across our local network a moment ago and no matter what permissions I gave it, it wouldn’t appear for anyone accessing my computer as a Guest. Cue one of those head-slapping moments when the problem, and solution, suddenly becomes alarmingly obvious.
If you’re having the same problems, chances are you’re sharing a sub-folder whose parent isn’t configured for sharing. In my case, I was trying to share the iTunes Music folder (full path from home directory Music/iTunes/iTunes Music) but in this case, both the Music/ and Music/iTunes/ folders didn’t have the appropriate permissions for sharing, so OS X was correctly preventing anyone else from accessing it.
Solution is simple - I shared the Music/ folder instead.
