I know how to connect to a vista pc public folder but what I would like to know is if I can keep the connection at all times, or at least start it automatically, as it happens between two macbooks. It seems that whenever I restart the mac, I have to go through connect to server... procedure. Is there a way to keep my pc in the shared list at all times?
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File sharing Vista and Mac osx
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What? You have no idea what your talking about!!! This allows you to add apps to start when you login.
What you can do, bartoszbr, is create a shortcut of the network address for later access. What version of OS X are you running?
When you connect to anything on the network, a network icon shows up on the desktop. Right click that and make an alias. Whenever you disconnect, that alias should still remain. Just double click that alias whenever you want to reconnect.
Btw, if you have the Windows PC setup correctly to share files or at least have the mac recognize it, it should continue show under "devices." How are your computers networked??
You shouldn't spout off at the mouth so fast. This picture shows three shares that are mounted at login. Archives, Video, Pictures.
Putting aliases on the desktop won't automatically remount the drive.
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Did anyone read the article Sharing files between a Windows Vista Home Edition PC and a Mac running OS X Leopard 10.5? Also if you are using Active Directory the article should be Connecting a Macintosh running Leopard (10.5) to SBS 2003.