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| Thread ID: 125492 | 2012-07-02 09:19:00 | The Apple guys are going to laugh at this one... shared folders | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 1285466 | 2012-07-02 09:19:00 | How does one enable file\folder sharing between Windows and OSX? I've got a Mac running OSX 10.5 and I want to create a shared folder I can have read\write access to from a Windows machine, I've turned on file sharing and enabled SMB but I can't access anything. OSX tells me that "Windows users can access your computer at smb://Unknown-<Ethernet's MAC Address here>.lan." Any hints? I'm sure It's just me doing something stupid. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1285467 | 2012-07-02 09:58:00 | This ? (www.howtogeek.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1285468 | 2012-07-02 10:38:00 | That's pretty much what I did. But it doesn't seem to have worked | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1285469 | 2012-07-02 10:40:00 | Under networking iirc theres a homegroup or workgroup name option (think its workgroup), make sure the mac is in the same workgroup. I did this a while back i dont recall needing the .lan at the end of the server address though, could be a mac only thing? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1285470 | 2012-07-02 10:40:00 | www.ifelix.co.uk Easier then explaining www.ifelix.co.uk |
plod (107) | ||
| 1285471 | 2012-07-02 10:46:00 | And why would we laugh? | plod (107) | ||
| 1285472 | 2012-07-02 11:06:00 | Under networking iirc theres a homegroup or workgroup name option (think its workgroup), make sure the mac is in the same workgroup. I did this a while back i dont recall needing the .lan at the end of the server address though, could be a mac only thing? Can't find anything to do with workgroups. the .lan thing is thanks to my Thomson Speedtouch router and its idiotic firmware. www.ifelix.co.uk Easier then explaining www.ifelix.co.uk That seems to be the same thing as what Speedy posted, which I tried, and which didn't work. And why would we laugh? Because I have no idea what I'm doing :lol: The Mac shows up in Windows networking as "MAC00001234567" style name, but if I try to open it, I just get a "The network path was not found." |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1285473 | 2012-07-02 11:12:00 | img141.imageshack.us Network>properties of the adapter you're using to connect to the network |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1285474 | 2012-07-02 11:13:00 | Have you tried just using the ip address? | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1285475 | 2012-07-02 11:14:00 | Unix systems dont like that. Hence linux and mac needing samba. | icow (15313) | ||
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