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- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29come on how basic is this...
- Fedge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It's pretty easy. Open up the sharing pref pane, and check "Windows Sharing" (or FTP Access, if that's your cup of tea). Then on the windows side, you connect to: \\Your.IP.Address.Here\username
Pretty fool-proof, actually. - tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How is that even related to this article?
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8YOU ARE SO COOL!
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5And you can seemlessly create hundreds of useless files prefixed ._ too!
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually, I'd believe him to be serious. It's like half as much work to map a drive from a windows box than this.
If you're desperately lazy, you can go to Finder and click on Go, then choose Connect to Folder and your shared systems will be listed there. - truk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The computer name is SCULLY, user name is GINA. The author's name is Gina Trapani.
X-Files fan maybe? - bobbydiamondz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Agreed. Especially since it doesn't mention the fact that you can browse the network in the Finder to find the share without even dealing with the IP address.
- SnowBladerX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Marked as Lame for this exact reason
- Xiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This has to do with Windows File Sharing security model set to NTLMv2 only and not, the negotiable setting.
To fix this (Go to the Vista machine):
1. Start -> Local Security Policy
2. Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Click on Security Options
3. Double click on: Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level
4. Change the dropdown from "Send NTLMv2 responses only" to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTMLv2 session security if negotiated."
5. Hit Apply, and have the mac connect. All should work now.
-- OR --
On your mac: edit your samba config.
Add the line/edit the line: client ntlmv2 auth = yes
Perform magic (I don't own a mac so I really can't help you beyond this).
But note: This method could break samba support as older versions of windows (2k?) may not support this properly. This will make NTLMv1 and LM responses inaccessible.
I just know the Local Security Policy method works fine as I did this research for my roommate to get his macbook pro to work with my vista box. - ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4did you just use the *word* "hella?"
. . . - cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How to: Shut Down Your Mac!
...next on digg.com - ncaauwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OMG I've been waiting for that! All my Macs do is sleep!
*Stays tuned* - Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"It just works". Why are we posting something so elementary?
- Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't have any problems at all with Samba shares. Actually, I don't have any problems with Windows shares either; come to think of it. I just don't use them as much.
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I love streaming movies off floppies. Although, you have to have quick hands since you need to put a new floppy in every 30 seconds or so.
- Misaiato, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Are you serious? apple + k type in smb://ipaddress and hit connect - that's complicated?
If he's being sarcastic I honestly can't tell. - xero9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty lame..
But on a side note, something I found out not too long ago is if you want to access an entire C drive, even if any other folders aren't shared do the following:
Apple-K then type in smb:///c$ - ncaauwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hm, whenever I take my MacBook Pro to work I just go to Network in the Finder and click on our studio's network, then I connect to whatever PC I want. Not too hard...although at home we have nothing but problems, but it's not as much as an issue, since all we really want to do is add more players to our Warcraft games besides our 3 Macs, hehe.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You may need to have two quick hands depending on what kind of movie you're playing.
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While we're on the topic, can someone please explain to me what to do on my mac when I try to connect to a drive on my PC and get an error saying the alias or whatever is bad, it always gives me the option to fix or deleted and neither one is exactly self explanatory since it just dumps you in Finder.
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This needs a digg article?
- xero9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You know the Macs are for sissies part I let slide.. Selling gay hardware I let slide.. Even buying a PC I let slide.. But as soon you mentioned Ubuntu I have to digg you down. If you're going to install Linux, do it right you puss
- vinchBR, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7thats great!!!
now i can share my folder with my fiancee mac..
but it would be nice to know the other way around also =) - dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Jeez, that's a way-complicated writeup for sharing a folder.
I just click on my Network icon, pick out the machine I want a drive shared from, click it, authenticate and go.
The setup's about the same, but I don't spend all my time writing down IP addresses... - 21.0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now for the hard part, printer sharing (from PC to Mac).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have always had networking issues between windows and mac, i can connect from vista to the mac, but from mac to vista, it says my name and password are wrong, when from mac to xp it works fine. I finally just formatted vista and installed ubuntu which is great so far. I still have networking issues, i can connect from my powerbook to my ubuntu share folders, but it says my username and pass are wrong (when im useing my ubuntu login and pass??) im sure if its a permissions issue in ubuntu or what, or if ubuntu needs to be setup as windows sharing, or unix sharing?
- ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5this is why i havnt been to digg in a month.
this crap making front page...
"Digg, N00b driven" - tripstreet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Other way around: From what I understand Sharepoints are going to be available as a built in function of Leopard, but in the mean time you can you this http://hornware.com/sharepoints/ . Very easy to setup, browse for the sharepoints you want and add them to your workgroup to allow windows machines to access whatever you allow them to. Works pretty nicely for me, can finally listen to my music wirelessly on the modded xbox in the living room! Sweet.
- mmzplanet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 I just create an automator app that will mount all of my shares. I have 2 Automator apps in my dock, one mounts all my shares at home... the other for work. Just click the app for where you are.
- ttamshadbolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually use Automator to create a workflow app, and set it to open on start-up. This means you always get your mapped drives. If for some reason you lose network connection - you just run the workflow and your connected again.
Matt. - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SMB was a standard feature of OS X since 10.1, when I started using it. It might have been there since 10.0.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One thing to keep in mind about connecting to Windows shares is that (especially on some larger Windows networks) you have to attach the domain to the machine name. That is, you have to use the fully qualified domain name in some cases. I've never actually had to do it when connecting from the Finder like this, but for some other applications, you need it.
An example would be MS's Remote Desktop Connection software for OS X. When you try to connect to a remote Windows machine, you likely won't get it without the full domain attached like this: machinename.foo.domain.com (or whatever it is.) You can enter that into the search domains field in the network control panel and it alleviates some of that, but some apps need to have it specified. - CDRaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow this is way more difficult than it should be...
Step one: Share Folder on Windows PC
Step two: Open the Mac HD on the Desktop of the Mac
Step Three: Open the Network Window in Finder (upper left hand corner)
Step four: Find your PC network (Mine Labeled Home), and open it.
Step Five: find the PC with shared files (Mine Name Leonard), open that.
Step Six: Enter the Password for your network, at the SMB/CIFS File System Authentication Window.
Step Seven: Select the volume, and there you go it is now acting like a mounted drive on the OS X Desktop...
Easy as pie... - ncaauwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, because everyone who works at a production studio is gay.
//sarcasm for those of you not smart enough to notice. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In before 500 people describing their way of doing it.
- Litespeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@shestowitz
Why? You looking for somewhere to work? - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I map to the hidden D$ share on my file server by typing the smb://IPAddress/D$
- danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just create an alias on my Apple machine to the shares that I want on my Windows machine. The shares look just like any other folder on my Mac. Go into the folder and everything happens behind the seen, no need to enter an ip or share names again. Hold down ALT+CMD and drag the folder wherever you want it to create an alias. Once you've done that for the shares you care about it feels like the networked shares are actually files on your machine. I also changed the finder preferences to not display connected network drives on the desktop to avoid clutter.
- Churnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can do cifs://server too... some say that's a better way to go when connecting to Windows boxes.
- wiihuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i have a macbook and i lose my internet (and thus server) connection(s) every time i close my macbook.
is there a way to get my macbook to open the connection to the servers every time my internet connects? does that make sense? maybe there's an applescript or something i can run? i have three drives on my pc that i connect to.
thanks a lot. - wiihuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1feel free to give us the step-by-step
- Xiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those are just the administrative shares. If the user does not have admin-level access, that share (as well as any drive letter as smb:///x$ where x is the drive letter) will reply access denied.
There's also smb:///ipc$ but that I believe is used by the printer service (among other things) to list all connected printers. - markfleser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame, it's not that difficult. I learned how to do that about a week after I got my Mac.
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, this isn't that hard to figure out.
you open up finder, see the big button called network, then you see your network name, click on your windows computer and accept. not hard. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's an Applescript to automate connecting to an SMB share (hopefully Digg's forum doesn't mangle it.) You have to embed your login and password but as long as it's a secure machine, it shouldn't be a problem. Save it as an application and double click to connect. Add more of the (misnamed) mountserver calls to add more shares.
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set myLogin to "yourlogin"
set myPassword to "yourpassword"
mountServer("share_name", "machine_name", myLogin, myPassword)
on mountServer(theShare, theServer, theLogin, thePassword)
tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume "smb://" & (theLogin as text) & ":" & (thePassword as text) & "@" & (theServer as text) & "/" & (theShare as text)
on error
display dialog "There was an error mounting volume " & return & return & ¬
theShare & " on server " & theServer & "." buttons {"OK"}
end try
end tell
end mountServer - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's hard about that?
- Dog_Paddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess I'm a retard. It took me forever to get my Mac to connect to my PC. First time it wouldn't connect at all, so I gave up. 5 months later I decided to try it again, and it magically worked =/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> I'll just stick with my floppies to transfer stuff... this is much too complicated...
CD-Rs are cheaper than floppies. - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Utilities > Printer Setup Utility > Add > More Printers > Windows Printers > Find Printer. Done.
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