I have a PC running which downloads all my podcast videos and other things.
I have set up a share so anyone in my house can access the shared folders from my PC via the network.
However, a strange problem has occurred:
Let's assume I have a folder called 'Video Casts' on the PC. And it automatically downloads my favourite video casts via RSS feed.
The problem is that when it's finished downloading I cannot access it via other macbooks. I can see it in finder. Opening it with VNC gives a 'permissions' error, and no program can open it whatsoever. It works fine on the PC of course...
Now, the only way to make files available on the macbooks is to make a duplicate of the file on the PC. Now this is fine with small 100MB videos, but is outrageous when I am watching 10GB videos and over...
ALSO, if the download creates a folder, then the folder is visible but it's contents is not visible... For example, if I dowload a video cast which is a folder that contains a video file and a text file, the folder will appear to be empty on the shared folder on the mac. Even if I copy the video file into that same folder, it will not be visible. The folder is like a black hole, nothing inside it can be seen from the mac's point of view. Again, the only way to access it is to copy the folder's contents to the main shared folder.
Why can't I access the files?
Any suggestions this is getting very annoying?
I have set up a share so anyone in my house can access the shared folders from my PC via the network.
However, a strange problem has occurred:
Let's assume I have a folder called 'Video Casts' on the PC. And it automatically downloads my favourite video casts via RSS feed.
The problem is that when it's finished downloading I cannot access it via other macbooks. I can see it in finder. Opening it with VNC gives a 'permissions' error, and no program can open it whatsoever. It works fine on the PC of course...
Now, the only way to make files available on the macbooks is to make a duplicate of the file on the PC. Now this is fine with small 100MB videos, but is outrageous when I am watching 10GB videos and over...
ALSO, if the download creates a folder, then the folder is visible but it's contents is not visible... For example, if I dowload a video cast which is a folder that contains a video file and a text file, the folder will appear to be empty on the shared folder on the mac. Even if I copy the video file into that same folder, it will not be visible. The folder is like a black hole, nothing inside it can be seen from the mac's point of view. Again, the only way to access it is to copy the folder's contents to the main shared folder.
Why can't I access the files?
Any suggestions this is getting very annoying?