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How to connect pc to XSERVE??
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Please define "connected to". What are you trying to accomplish? File sharing? Headless control (GUIfied or CLI?)?
Sounds like you need to turn on Windows Sharing on the XServe. The Windows box will have to connect using SMB, as I don't think you can turn on Apple filesharing services on PCs anymore.
Service Message Block, A.K.A., Windows file sharing (their protocol for it).
This is what samba is for on your XServe, it's the UNIX implementation of SMB services.
This is what samba is for on your XServe, it's the UNIX implementation of SMB services.
When you fire up the Server Admin app and expand your server to show all the available services, one of them is "Windows" down at the bottom. Set it as a standalone server (I assume), give it a name and appropriate workgroup, then start the service.
You may also need to give individual users permission to connect via Windows sharing in the Workgroup Manager app, but I'm not sure if that's necessary.
It's pretty easy to do in my experience, but if you have no idea what you're doing with networking I suppose it's easy to get in over your head.
You may also need to give individual users permission to connect via Windows sharing in the Workgroup Manager app, but I'm not sure if that's necessary.
It's pretty easy to do in my experience, but if you have no idea what you're doing with networking I suppose it's easy to get in over your head.
Yeah, just start Windows Sharing (Samba) in Server Admin.
If you haven't fooled around in the sharing in WorkGroup Manager, the same sharing applies for both AFP (Mac) as SMB (Windoze).
If your PC and Xserve are not configured otherwise, both belong to the workgroup "WORKGROUP" (duh..
), making life a little easier.
Then goto your PC and press, START >> Run....
Type in that window: "\\<IP ADDRESS OF Xserve>"\ ,and it should ask for a username and password.
BTW...
Your Mac OS X Client can test if that Xserve is correctly setup for Windoze-sharing:
Choose "Connect to Server.." (COMMAND - K), and type the following:
"smb://<IP ADDRESS OF Xserve" , and it should ask for authentication.
Note the difference in backslash and forwardslash between PC & Mac while accessing the SMB Share.
If you haven't fooled around in the sharing in WorkGroup Manager, the same sharing applies for both AFP (Mac) as SMB (Windoze).
If your PC and Xserve are not configured otherwise, both belong to the workgroup "WORKGROUP" (duh..
), making life a little easier.Then goto your PC and press, START >> Run....
Type in that window: "\\<IP ADDRESS OF Xserve>"\ ,and it should ask for a username and password.
BTW...
Your Mac OS X Client can test if that Xserve is correctly setup for Windoze-sharing:
Choose "Connect to Server.." (COMMAND - K), and type the following:
"smb://<IP ADDRESS OF Xserve" , and it should ask for authentication.
Note the difference in backslash and forwardslash between PC & Mac while accessing the SMB Share.