[X4U] Re: Mount Mac firewire drive on Windows?

[Jon]

You don't need any special software, it's built into 10.3.

Go to the Services button of the Sharing pref panel. Click on Windows  
Sharing to turn it on. Once you select Windows Sharing, a sentence will  
appear on the bottom of that checklist window that gives the IP address  
that Windows machines should use to access that Mac.

And once the XP user is connected with the Mac, XP will ask which  
volumes should be shared.

It seems to me that the more recent 10.3 releases are more consistent  
and reliable than the earlier 10.3 versions in making the above work.

Jon


> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:45:30 -0600
> From: Anne-Marie Concepcion <amarie at senecadesign.com>
> Subject: [X4U] Mount Mac firewire drive on Windows?
> To: Mac OS X for Users <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
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> I've got everything working in a 2-Mac/1-PC network, everyone can
> mount everyone else's main drives using the OS's built-in software.
> (Macs are 10.3.5, PC is Windows XP Pro, SP2).
>
> But... the one thing I need to do I can't figure out. I have a
> Firewire hanging off one of my Macs. I want to turn this into a
> "quasi file server" so the Macs and the PC can all read/write to it.
>
> I can't figure out which network address to tell Windows to add a
> Network Connection for the firewire drive.
>
> I found this discussion on Mac OS X hints:
> <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
> story=2002082601170699&query=samba+share+point>
>
> and the very last comment looked great, it referred people to this
> utility, SambaShare:
> <http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/index.shtml>
>
> ... but the guy abandoned development of Samba Share with Jaguar.
> It's not compatible w/Panther.
>
> I know I can buy DAVE or install/configure Sharepoints, but it seems
> like overkill just to get a firewire drive to appear on the PC. (no
> problem getting it on the Macs).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thx
> AM