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| Thread ID: 79981 | 2007-06-07 21:36:00 | Mac - accessing samba/windows shares | personthingy (1670) | Press F1 |
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| 557032 | 2007-06-07 21:36:00 | I have a guest laptop that visits my house. It is a species that i know nothing about. Its a mac running what i'm told is the latest mac OS, although i'm also told it's a bran new machine, even tho i know it to be at least 2 years old. With a minimal amount of poking about, and a few words of wisdom sought in advance, i got it to connect to my network, using DHCP, so it's quite happy to see the world, or use FTP to access meinServer. What i have no idea how to do, is get it to connect to the shared files on meinServer that are accessible via samba. My set up offers 2 shares Share 1 = read only. This is mainly where we stash things that either myself or Ziggy may want later, software, that sort of thing. Share 2 = open. Anyone can connect, write to the share, etc. (Anyone except this mac it seems) So how do i get the mac to see the shared network directory's on meinServer? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 557033 | 2007-06-08 05:02:00 | On OS X (I'm guessing 10.3 if it is 2 years old- click on the Apple menu in the top LH corner of the screen for "about this Mac") For Windows sharing on OS X look in the Finder>Applications>System preferences (this icon can be dragged onto the Dock)>Sharing. Check that Windows sharing button is checked. This may require the admin password to make the changes. From the desktop you can use the Apple key which is next to the spacebar +K to connect to the server.Then type the server address into the window. The server icon should show up on your Mac desktop. Apple uses Samba to connect. Hope that helps. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 557034 | 2007-06-08 05:34:00 | This link might also help www.apple.com or this one www.apple.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 557035 | 2007-06-15 06:39:00 | That link was most useful . We had so many issues trying to get FTP access to paradise's webserver that we ended up downloading a wee app called "fetch", which worked, and will continue to for another 13 days before $$ is handed over . Oddly though we had no problem accessing meinServer (the heart of my network) via FTP using the macs native tools . I was half expecting to be able to browse what was on the LAN when looking for samba/windows shares like i can in KDE, but as per the link-advice, i had to name "smb://meinServer" to find the "Read_only" share, and sadly not find "open", so i had to type "smb://meinServer/Open" to locate "open" . Still there's another of lifes little problems dealt with . ahhhh :) Thanks winmacguy . |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 557036 | 2007-06-15 06:40:00 | No problems. Its easy when you know how. If you have any problems with the Mac just ask. There is a lot of software out there that a lot of PC types are not familiar with that Mac users regard as common knowledge. "i had to name "smb://meinServer" to find the "Read_only" share, and sadly not find "open", so i had to type "smb://meinServer/Open" to locate "open"." Possibly based on simple Unix logic I would imagine. |
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