[X4U] XP -> OSX Network question

Steve Talkowski stevetalkowski at mac.com
Thu Mar 10 12:04:28 PST 2005


Preston,

Thanks so much, it worked like a charm!

I'm using Nero BackItUp on my PC for daily backups of a project to a 
DVD+RW on the PC and have one folder on the Mac that needs to be 
included.   SharePoints was extremely easy to set up!

-Steve

On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Preston Kutzner wrote:

> I haven't found an easy way to do this through OS X itself, but there 
> is
> a nice little utility you can pick up from MacUpdate called 
> SharePoints.
>  I've been using it regularly to share non-user folders.  It works well
> enough.  Basically it just edits the system's Samba config file to add
> the shares to it.  Which, by all means, you're welcome to edit yourself
> too... ;)
>
> Steve Talkowski wrote:
>> I've got file sharing turned on in OSX.
>>
>> On my Windows XP box, I see the mount, but can only access what's in 
>> my
>> /Users/steve account, i.e., Desktop, Documents, Library, Movies, 
>> Music,
>> PIctures, Public and Sites.   I have other folders set up under my 
>> main
>> hard drive (PROJECTS, DIGIPICS, SKETCHES, etc.) and would like to be
>> able to access these folders on the PC.   Is this a permissions issue?



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