How do I hide the parent folder of the user home folders in File Sharing?

Solution 1:

Mac is mostly unix under the hood. Try setting the permissions of the /Users folder to everyone only execute.

E.g. Currently:

bash-3.2# ls -ld /Volumes/Users drwxrwxrwx 10 root admin 510 23 May 2012 /Volumes/Users

bash-3.2# chmod o-rw /Volumes/Users

bash-3.2# ls -ld /Volumes/Users drwxrwx--x 10 root admin 510 23 May 2012 /Volumes/Users

OS X has addition access control tricks, so this may not work.