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cleo
May 13, 2002, 01:23 PM
When I connect to one of the Windows machines in the house from OS X, I just have to use the computer name and folder (smb://livingroom/public/). It there way to do this for the other OS X machines instead of typing in the IP addresses (which change occasionally)? I'd like to be able to bookmark the hard drive of my iBook without having to make sure the IP is correct.


Rower_CPU
May 13, 2002, 02:18 PM
Have you tried AFP?

Appleshare names should work for you.
cleo
May 13, 2002, 02:35 PM
do you know the syntax? i'm guessing something along the lines of afp://ibook/ should work? i'll mess around with it when i get home - thanks for the tip!
Rower_CPU
May 13, 2002, 02:38 PM
Yup...afp://computername should work for you.

Make sure you've turned on AppleTalk in the Network tab of System Prefs first...
Backtothemac
May 13, 2002, 02:48 PM
Nope, syntax is wrong.

Ex:

it is
smb://workgroup;server/share

You would change workgroup to the name of your workgroup, and server to the name of your server. Share would be the folder that you are wanting to connect to.

To do, go to go, connect to server, and choose the above.
Hope that helps.
Rower_CPU
May 13, 2002, 02:50 PM
Originally posted by Backtothemac
Nope, syntax is wrong.

Ex:

it is
smb://workgroup;server/share

You would change workgroup to the name of your workgroup, and server to the name of your server. Share would be the folder that you are wanting to connect to.

To do, go to go, connect to server, and choose the above.
Hope that helps.

smb://computername/sharename works for me...so there! :p
cleo
May 13, 2002, 03:43 PM
afp://computername/ doesn't work for me, appletalk on both machines turned on... any other thoughts?
Backtothemac
May 13, 2002, 04:13 PM
Originally posted by cleo
afp://computername/ doesn't work for me, appletalk on both machines turned on... any other thoughts?

Cleo.

do
smb://workgroupname;servername/foldername

Rower. Don't know what your doing that I am. Are you doing smb or afp?
Rower_CPU
May 13, 2002, 04:20 PM
Originally posted by cleo
afp://computername/ doesn't work for me, appletalk on both machines turned on... any other thoughts?

Browse your Appletalk network to see the computers...you are on a local network, right?

B2TM- I'm using smb...I just type smb://pc/SharedDocs to log into my PC.