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

[Daniel Brieck]

Billy,

You should be able to browse for it in the Finders "Network Browser" 
but don;t do it because it is more trouble than it is worth use the GO 
way it is much better.....

If it does not show up try going to the finder and using the Go (pull 
down menu) -> connect to server and type smb://and the IP address of 
the the VPC windows machine. It seems the way that the default settings 
are set for VPC this will not work. As a matter of fact with my Virtual 
PC set up configured to Shared Networking I can not even connect to my 
Mac using File Sharing, gives a permissions error on windows; however I 
can connect to another windows machine on my network with out a 
problem. So since the mac and vpc are sort of generically sharing one 
IP address the machines can't see each other completely (?)....

So what to do:

1. Shut Down Window XP
2. Go to the VPC List and select /click once on the  Windows Xp Click 
on the settings Button. Then under current setting go to network. I bet 
it is set on Shared Networking Change it to Virtual Switch. Note that 
Virtual Switch requires a separate IP address for the VPC windows. So 
if your home set-up  has a router with Dynamic DHCP your all set. If 
you just have one IP address Ex Dial-up or something else here is what 
you may have to do.

[Skip if you have a Router]
(note sure if this works but in theory it should, because if you have a 
mac and a PC physically networked with a hub it works for file sharing, 
So the VPC would Connect internally thinking it is on the network then 
getting an IP from the macs IP sharing )(I am not a network expert so 
mabey someone else could confirm this)
Turn on IP sharing on the mac Go to System prefs then Sharing then 
Internet TAB, then make your selection there (built in ethernet) and 
then Click start sharing.  Note this may cause problems according to 
your set up (For example if there is already a DHCP network there or if 
you try to share a connection directly back into the [ethernet 
connected cable / DSL modem not sure about this but i don't think your 
isp would like that].... If you have nothing plugged into the ethernet 
port then you certainly will have no problem with IPs conflicting..

4. Start windows, then get your new IP address it will be different 
from the last one you entered in Go> connect to. Then it should 
work......

Dan Brieck Jr.

On Jan 19, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Billy Bacon wrote:

> 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 -