Re: Networking an Apple Mac to a PC
- From: Malke <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:39:18 -0800
richardmclarke wrote:
Hi,
1. I can ping each machine from the other
2. I have disabled both firewalls - now there is no security running on
both computers.
3. Both Mac and PC usernames and passwords are identical
4. I have XP home edition so can't enable simple file sharing.
5. You mention using SMB in windows - how do I set up using SMB?
You said that setting up a Mac / PC network should be simple - it is - my
Mac can network with other PCs no problem, there seems to just be a
problem with my own PC. Is there any way I can reset whatever settings are
wrong on my PC to their defaults? or do you have any other suggestions?
You also mentioned asking a knowledgeable friend come over - I am that
knowledgeable friend that is the most frustrating bit. I can set up Mac /
PC networks for all my friends but not my own!!! As I said before what is
most frustrating is that it used to network fine when my Mac had Tiger.
You don't set up SMB (Samba) on the PC. Samba is what allows *nix computers
(and OS X is a form of Unix) to communicate with Windows computers.
Do you get any error message when you try to write to the Windows machine?
Or are you just not able to see it in Finder on Leopard? If the latter is
the case, this is a known issue with Leopard. Leopard's Windows sharing is
wonky. The Windows machines are supposed to show up in Finder on the
Sidebar under Sharing. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. On my
own machine, updating to 10.5.2 has not fixed that. I just checked and
while yesterday the Vista machine showed up, right now Leopard has decided
not to show it. Since I rarely use Windows for anything, this isn't a huge
deal for me and if the moon isn't in the right phase or whatever for
Leopard, I just access the Windows box by using Finder's Go>Connect to
Server and typing in:
smb://192.168.1.xxx [IP address of Windows machine]
There is a lot more information about this Leopard blindness on the Apple
forums and also on http://www.macwindows.com/ - maybe you should take a
look there.
Otherwise, I just don't know what else to tell you.
Malke
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