Connect to Mac From PC (win'98)

[patrick0brien]

-All

I'm having a devil of a time connecting here.

Here's the setup. Both machines are connected through a hub and have valid IP addresses, and Windows File sharing is active on the Mac. Also, I've enables my account to be accessed from Windows in the "accounts" preference.

I wish to access the Mac from the PC using "Map Network Drive" coomand and I invoke it. I map the D: drive and type in the Mac's IP \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\<home> and it requests a password.

Al good so far.

But it won't accept. I get "The password is incorrect. Try again." Any ideas?

[3G4N]

ftp to the mac from the pc

[Roger1]

When you login to the pc at the Windows login screen, is it the same login and password you use to access the server?

If not, change it so they are the same, go to start/run, type in the name of the mac you are trying to access. This might work.

[andyduncan]

This is a random idea, but is your mac password longer than 8 characters? Jaguar supports long passwords but i've heard of win 9x having problems with them when trying to use samba.

[g3ski]

setup a user account on the mac with the exact same name as the windows login name.

win98 is a bugger about this

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by g3ski
setup a user account on the mac with the exact same name as the windows login name.

win98 is a bugger about this

-g3ski

Hmm. I'll try that.

-Roger1

I didn't follow that, can you elaborate?

[Roger1]

My thought was pretty much like G3ski's. But to connect to the server try going to start/run, type //servername

press enter. This might get you into your Apple

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by g3ski
setup a user account on the mac with the exact same name as the windows login name.

-g3ski

Well, I created a user account on OS X with credentials identical to those used on the Win98 machine, as you suggest.

And it worked by gum!

$^%& Windows 98.

Thanks!