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Networking MAC to PC issue

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bkahl

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Ive gone through edesignuk's guide Networking Windows "(2000/XP/2003*) with Mac OS X (10.3/10.4)" to setup a network between my Mac and Windows XP machine. I can see my Mac in "My Network Places" on the XP machine, but when I attempt to connect to folders on the PC using Connect to server with the PC IP address and folder I want to access, I get an error saying the Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "smb://IP ADDRESS/FOLDER" could not be read or written.

Any help with figuring out this problem would be greatly appreciated.

I am wirelessly connected to the router via my Mac, the PC is hard wired, any potential for that to be a problem?
 
Is your XP firewall perhaps getting in the way?

Do you have another PC to make sure things are fully functional on your target PC?

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I disabled the XP firewall to test, and still had no luck.

Do not have another PC.
 
Is the PC on the same workgroup?
I've not read the user guide you have so I don't know if that covers that side of things already and you have done that.
 
I tend to do most of my SMB debugging from Terminal.app since smbclient tends to give more informative error messages.

Open Terminal and try:

smbclient -L ip.ad.dr.ess

it should give you a list of shares.

Then try

smbclient \\\\ip.ad.dr.ess\\folder

and see what it says (Yes, you need the extra backslashes)

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When I go to the terminal, this is what I have done and gotten:

Last login: Sat Jan 5 12:56:09 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
brady-kahls-computer:~ kahlbj$ smbclient -L ip.add.re.ss
session request to ip.add.re.ss failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name)
brady-kahls-computer:~ kahlbj$


That help out at all? Im new to Macs, so maybe I am not doing this correctly?
 
balamw said:
I tend to do most of my SMB debugging from Terminal.app since smbclient tends to give more informative error messages.

Open Terminal and try:

smbclient -L ip.ad.dr.ess

it should give you a list of shares.

Then try

smbclient \\\\ip.ad.dr.ess\\folder

and see what it says (Yes, you need the extra backslashes)

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No joy, here's what I get:
sh-3.2# smbclient -L 10.0.1.197
session request to 10.0.1.197 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 10 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name)
sh-3.2# ping 10.0.1.197
PING 10.0.1.197 (10.0.1.197): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=3.270 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=6.171 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.501 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.444 ms
 
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