Networking issue.

I have a 2 machine network.

Everything is attached to the router on an ip of 192.168.0.1 as standard when setting it up.

My windows machine is 192.168.0.2 and the mac here is 192.168.0.3. Now i can go on the net with both machines no problem and i can ping both machines with no problems but i cannot seem to actually mount a share from the windows computer.

I'm running Panther and i am at my wits end trying to figure this out. Now it worked before when i did an upgrade from Jag but i preferred a format and reinstall.

When i go to the finder and select "go to server", i type in the windows address or router and just get a "no response from server" error message. But i can ping them both and scan their ports?

Anybody help me on this?

 

Okay tell me why putting smb:// infront of the ip address lets me access the damn computer!

I didn't have to do this in Jaguar and it doesn't mention this method in Panther!

Arragghh!

Thankyou, this is the second thread today where i have been stumped by a simple thing.

 

SUCK doesn't begin to describe the process in which i had to go through in order to find out all it took was "smb://".

I was unplugging cables, rebooting machines, rebooting the router and setting up a direct connection between the mac and windows incase something was up with the router.

Oh yeah, i live on the 2nd floor in my house, the router is on the 1st floor...

 

The error message simply denies you access, it would be nice if it provided a hint that some error boxes do.

"Are you typing the address in full?" Or basically OSX could fill in the gap for you like when you type in a web address but without the "www.".