[X4U] connecting to a windows file share?

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 14 14:07:07 PST 2004


On 12/14/04 1:22 PM, Russell McGaha <RussellMcGaha at direcway.com> wrote:

>     They're trying to access a windows 2000 server serving multible
> directories.  I think I just need to get the correct SMB syntax to include the
> username and password in the url call; should it be in the form of
> "smb://Serverename/Directoryname:username:password" ?

smb://username:password@ComputerName/DirectoryName

Also, if the windows machine is in a Workgroup domain, you need to set your
Mac to be in that Workgroup (/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access:SMB)




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