RE: XP to Mac direct connect via ethernet cable
- From: dre1x <dre1x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:11:01 -0800
OK, for any of you reading this post...
I am operational and really not sure how, however I believe this was the
problem:
1) I was using smb://xxx.xxx.x.x/*pccomputername* and should have been using
smb://xxx.xxx.x.x/*pccomputerdescription*
2) More importantly, I believe, connection could not be made behind Zone
Alarm running on the PC
So after, researching more than one should about SMB, Group Policies in XP,
encrypted protocols, adding some version of gpedit to XP Home, registry
changes and terminal changes...I think it was simply a 3rd party firewall.
So, after much frustration and more than a little time...i have file sharing
and internet connection...i'll worry about printers some other time
Does anyone know if you can 'share' entire hard disks or does everything
need to be in a folder? Can you access those via shortcuts and aliases?
Any way....done, and hope this info helps the knowledge base...
Dave
"dre1x" wrote:
Ok I simply want to do (2) things:.
Share files between my PC and Mac
Connect my Mac to the internet via my PC
Hardware info:
PC: Intel D940, Windows XP Home SP2
PCI to PCMCIA Adapter Card
Cellular Internet Connection through Pantech PC5750 AirCard
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
(no issues connecting to the net with the PC and the aircard)
Mac: PowerMac G4 (AGP graphics)
OSX Tiger 10.4.11
Built in Ethernet
(Also, had previously installed the aircard in the Mac and it connects to
the net with no issues)
I connected an Ethernet crossover cable form my PC to my Mac
Ran the network setup wizard in XP, created a work group, named the
computers, setup windows file sharing, setup permission for windows sharing
in OSX.
This what I have now….
in XP:
My network places/View workgroup computers/
My previous named PC
My previously named Mac
in OSX:
My Mac/Network
/XP workgroup folder/ My previously named PC alias (which can’t be found
when asked to connect
/Library alias
/My Network Folder (empty)
/Servers alias/mymac.local alias
I tried ipconfig in XP and found my PC and my Aircard (no reference to my mac)
checked IP addys and subnet masks
tried connect to sever using smb protocol (not sure if I used that correctly
at all)
smb://pc ip addy/pc name
results in error (the finder cannot complete the operation because some of
the data in “smb://xxx.xxx.x.x/pc name “ could not be read or written, error
code –36)
tried ‘add a network place’ in XP using the address under OSX accounts (no
luck, invalid address or permission errors)
turned off firewalls on XP
It would seem to me that this should be rather straight forward, unless I am
doing something very wrong basically
any help would be great….a link, a step by step, something I have just
screwed up…thx in advance
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