[X4U] problems setting up Windows Sharing

[Nick Scalise]

SharePoints <http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/> will let you share any Mac directory that you want.

Even to Windows machines.
 
On Friday, December 03, 2004, at 09:22AM, Dominic Ibarra <dibarra at mindspring.com> wrote:

>I would agree with Richard that you will have more success sharing a 
>Windows directory and mounting that on your mac. You can then use a 
>simple SMB protocol to mount the share.
>
>I do use Windows sharing on occasion and it actually works OK. The 
>major problem being the same problem with OSX as a whole, that you 
>cannot choose the directory to share like you can in the evil world of 
>windows. A Windows Share on your Mac will share out your entire Home 
>directory. Browsing does not always work, but the path is \\<Mac name 
>or IP>\<user short name>. So a sample would be \\Mac5\chucky or 
>\\192.168.0.121\chucky. IP is probably the best way to go, but make 
>sure to use your User's short name.
>
>On Dec 3, 2004, at 8:54 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>
>> You're likely to have more success accessing the PC from the Mac than 
>> the other way around,  I think "Windows Sharing" just means being able to 
>> access a Windows volume from the Mac. I work in a mixed PC/Mac environment 
>> and I've not seen it work the other way around, but having said that I'll have 
>> to give it a try. You'll need the IP number of the PC to access it from 
>> OSX from under the GO menu in the form: smb://(insert IP address)
>>
>> AFP: Apple File Protocol is what we use to access a Mac from another 
>> Mac the address looks like: afp://(IP number) I don't think PCs understand this
>> protocol at all but I'll have to check to make sure. Check the Apple 
>> website for more detail.
>>
>> Is the file sharing setup properly on the PC? This needs to be correct 
>> for the Mac to access it. Is there a server on the system? If so setting 
>> up a shared volume there might be the easiest way for both parties to share files.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>>
>>> I can't get Windows Sharing working properly (first time I try).
>>>
>>> The checkbox for "Windows Sharing" in Sharing is checked, and there's 
>>> a Public folder in the Home of user foo. There's a label when you select
>>> Windows Sharing that says that the computer will be accessible to
>>> Windows users as \\computer.name\foo. The firewall is off in all the
>>> services.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, when we try that address from the XP of a coworker
>>> (computers connected through the company's LAN) an authentication
>>> dialog shows up and I can't even log in with the very user foo. Is the
>>> expected usage not to have an authentication dialog at all?
>>>
>>> Searching the web I founded screenshots of Jaguar with a checkbox
>>> "Allow this user to log in from Windows" in the user profile panel, 
>>> but I can't find it in Panther.
>>>
>>> Anyone got it working? Any hint?


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