[G4] Connecting from my Mac to my Virtual PC Windows XP

Billy Bacon billy at billybacon.com
Mon Jan 19 07:18:47 PST 2004 

Thank you for the reply.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.2 (Panther). The SMB workgroup is 'WORKGROUP' (the
default and the pc is on that same group. I have enabled file sharing on the
windows pc.

Now how should I be able to browse my windows pc c: drive from my Mac?
Should it come up in the Finder window? Or do I need to connect to it a
different way?

Thanks for your help?

- Billy -

On 1/18/04 7:43 PM, "Daniel Brieck" <djbrieck at mac.com> wrote:

> Billy,
> 
> 1. What mac os X are you running?
> 
> 2. What workgroup does the pc think it os on ( This matters before mac
> os X.3 panther, if it is a different workgroup it will not necessarily
> show up)?     For mac os X.2
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107137
> 
> 3. Did you enable file sharing on the windows PC ? You should see a
> hand by the C: drive if you are sharing it. If not right click on
> sharing
> 
> 4. Also you may want to try playing with Network Settings on the VPC
> List (Ex. Virtual Switch)
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 18, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Billy Bacon wrote:
> 
>> What I need to do is be able to open up a Finder window on my powerbook
>> (Panther) and browse over to my Window XP OS while Virtual PC is
>> running (I
>> want to browse the C drive on my Windows OS). Right now I can be
>> working in
>> Virtual PC WinXP and open Microsoft Explorer and I have a shared drive
>> (Z:)
>> that I've mapped. So I can browse files that reside on my Mac while I'm
>> working in my Windows world.
>> 
>> I need to be able to do the reverse while working in my Mac OS X
>> environment.
>> 
>> Is this possible? Right now my Mac *cannot* see my Windows XP
>> environment.
>> But my Windows XP environment *can* see my Mac environment.
>> 
>> And yes, my Virtual PC application is running on the same machine (so
>> maybe
>> in my last e-mail, 'connect' was probably a bad word to use).
>> 
>> Can this be done?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> 
>> - Billy -
>> 
>> On 1/18/04 1:23 PM, "Mel Krewall" <mkrewall at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Billy,
>>> What do you mean when you say "connect"? If the VPC is on the same
>>> machine that you want to connect to, you can install VPC Extras and
>>> share your Mac hard drive with the VPC instance. You can manipulate
>>> the
>>> same files in Windows as you could in the Finder. The Go menu only
>>> works from a network perspective and VPC default is shared networking,
>>> meaning that the Windows instance and the Mac use the same network
>>> connection, therefore they wouldn't understand connecting to one
>>> another. Sharing the disk between Windows and Mac is probably the way
>>> you want to go.
>>> Mel
>>> 
>>> "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are
>>> still rolling."
>>> ~ Mark Twain
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:33 AM, Billy Bacon wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Here's my
>>>> problem.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to connect from my Mac to my Window XP installation which
>>>> runs on
>>>> my Virtual PC application. I can connect the other way (VP WinXP to
>>>> my
>>>> Mac)
>>>> with no problems. I can't seem to figure out what naming convention I
>>>> need
>>>> to use to connect my Mac to Windows. From the Finder 'Go' menu at the
>>>> top of
>>>> the screen I click "Connect To Server". But I've tried various
>>>> combinations
>>>> of a computer name for my Virtual PC WinXP and nothing has working.
>>>> My
>>>> computers name (WinXP on Virtual PC) is 'VPXP'. Typing this in the
>>>> 'connect
>>>> to server' textbox doesn't work either.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you
>>>> 
>>>> - Billy -
>>>> 
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