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GUIDE: Networking Windows with OS X

My fix for Error -36

This is how I fixed my error -36 when trying to see my Windows XP machine from Mac OS X.

Turn on "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" on the Windows CURRENT NETWORK CONNECTION:

- Open your current network connection status window (from tray or control panel)

- Click Properties

- Check the File and Printer Sharing for the Windows box

See this page for screen shots (it's the third down):
http://joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/wxpfs.html

hope this helps you!
kelle
 
What to do, if system admin does not turn off signing

Hi,
I want to mount via smb a windows 2003 server share. My sys admin does not want to turn off the digital signing for security reasons. Is there any other way, e.g. is there a patched mount_smbfs which does digitally signing.
For e.g. I found sourcecode at:http://galileo.gamepoint.com.au/pub/freebsd/cvs/src/sys/netsmb/smb_iod.c,v
which include the statement:

1.15
log
@Add support for SMB request signing, which prevents "man in the middle"
attacks and is required to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
default configuration. This adds an extra field to the SMB header
containing the truncated 64-bit MD5 digest of a key (a function of the
user's password and the server's authentication challenge), an implicit
sequence number, and the message data itself. As signing each message
imposes a significant performance penalty, we only enable it if the
server will not let us connect without it; this should eventually become
an option to mount_smbfs.

I don't know whether compiling just this piece would work (I am not really a programmer).
 
Great Guide

Great guide but doesn't work for me.

Network is 2 Macs, 1 XP SP2

Can ping both ways
XP connects to Macs but Macs don't connect to XP
Macs connect to each other (duh)
XP shows in Finder
Connect attempt results in "...name or password not correct" OR "alias could not be opened..." depending upon method
Problem began with a recent XP update (not sure which one)
I have tried EVERY suggestion here, no joy

Any suggestions?
 
I Am Tearing My Hair Out

I used to consider myself smart until today.

I have a new g5 imac running 10.4. I am trying to connect to a folder on my xp sp2 pc. The PC can see the mac and all of its folders, but for the life of me I can't get the mac to see the pc. I have read EVERY post, EVERY tutorial and tried EVERYTHING. Before I throw this thing out the window, what in the world can it be?

I have turned off the windows firewall. I am using a belkin router.

Thanks,
Seth
 
Hi, first post here in fact I registered just for that, I do hope this thread is still active:

As other people have said, I'm trying to connect my mac to my xp machine and I get the "Could not connect to the server because the name or password is incorect"

I've been trying to do this for 2 hours now, tried every way I could find to map my drive. Here are the error message I get in the terminal:
mount_smbfs //OFANITE@192.168.2.10/DATA /Volumes/Test
Password:
mount_smbfs: session setup phase failed: syserr = Permission denied

smbclient //192.168.2.10/DATA -Uofanite
Password:
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_TYPE_NOT_GRANTED

I tried different ways to connect, including workgroups, including passwords but I always get those errors.

I have both computers on same workgroup, I tried having an account with the same name and with different names, having similar and different passwords. Both firewalls are disabled, I ping fine, I can even ftp between the 2 machines both ways.

I tried that a couple of months ago when I first gor my mac and I had the same issues, the xp machine and the mac have been formated a couple of times since.

oh and I did check the RequireSecuritySignature reg key to make sure it was at 0.

I'm using OSX 10.3.9 on a mac mini
and Windows XP sp 1 on an athlon 2800

Thanks ... any help will be much appreciated.

Ofanite
 
Sorry I cant help with the previously posted issue, but I have ANOTHER one:

Whenever I am connected with my second PCI-Ethernet card to the internet, the "Network" drive in the Finder window loses its ability to display ANY connected computers, neither Windows nor Mac OS... if the connection to the internet is off (a DSL connection over PPPoE) the network browsing feature is working again.

ITS ANNOYING. What could that be??
 
Arghhh!

Howdy,

I am in the same boat as "digitalskillz".

I can ping both ways between 10.4.3 (powerbook, wireless) to my XPSP2 (wired (I had it wireless too, but then removed the card and went Cat5 after trying everything once or twice)). I have tried the Mac wired as well... no luck.

I have given both machines a static IP.

I can log into the Mac from the PC without issue. I just can't connect from the Mac to the PC. I have made sure they are in the same workgroup. I have passwords on the accounts...

I have tried it with and without firewalls.

I followed all the information on the guide... all the changes to windows and the Mac mentioned in the guide...

I even tried the changes for 2003... without luck.

I am stumped.

Ideas?

Thanks.
 
Arrrgh!

Just wanted to mention that I thank everybody who has contributed to this thread... it is much more informative and helpful than the others that I found online.

Thanks. (And double thanks if you can help me!)
 
Computer-to-Computer network

Can someone tell me the way to set up the computer-to-compuer (peer-to-peer) network between two portable computers (one PC and the other Mac)? This is not about setting up a network via wireless hub.

I have a company PC which is connected to work network at office and which also has Marlin Card/Spint PSC for internet connection while on the road. I would like to know if there is a way to connect my iBook or PBs to my company notebook PC by setting up computer-to-computer network. I looked around the forums but I could not find this particular networking question.

My company PC has the internal WiFi.
 
Mac to XP no go...

Allrod said:
Just wanted to mention that I thank everybody who has contributed to this thread... it is much more informative and helpful than the others that I found online.

Thanks. (And double thanks if you can help me!)
Click to expand...


No luck yet Allrod... I have tried a couple different things with help from the thread leader but still haven't been able to hit my XP from the mac. I have given up for the time being since I can "push" to the mac from windows explorer using the mac IP address from Start>Run. But it would be nice to not have to do that all the time.

Cheers,
if anyone figures out the issue please up date the thread...

-people should think, machines should work

-R
 
Ok my problem isn't as severe as others but it bothers me none the less. I have a lot of share drives on my windows boxes and dont want them cluttering my desktop. Is there anyway I can make them appear in a folder or just in the finder? Really anywhere that is NOT my desktop would be fine. :)
 
Go finder menu then prefs then in general turn off connected servers. This is one idea then you could access them via a smart folder maybe? Just an idea I don't have 10.4 so i can't try this.;)
 
Sharing a mac connected printer with a PC

Dear Group,

I have been working on this problem for hours and am dizzy from reading and trying instructions found on several sites before I found this group. I feel I am inches away from success, but not there, and that doesn't count!

I have an iMac G4 flat Panel running OS10.2.8 and a Linksys wireless router, a Canon iP6000D printer and my husband has a Dell inspiron, running Windows xp.

It seems I need the simplest instructions possible. I had trouble locating some of the information requested, like computer names, network names etc. I would be ever so grateful for help to allow my husband to wirelessly connect to use my printer. It seems like that should be possible, I am just missing something. I got close enough to see my computer on his desktop, but all the file folders were empty and there was nothing about the printer.

Please help! I hate starting the new year with a failure! ;)
WW13
 
cannot connect to drives

so, via this thread I can now connect to a WINXP machine and folders that were created to be shared, even $ folders.

But, I have some NAS connected, and the drives are listed as to be shared. they show up in the list of things the imac will connect to, but when I try to connect I get a LOGIN (there shouldn't be a login) and then a cannot connect dialogue and request for the alias, or delete or repair the alias.

what is this alias and is there a differant protocol for connecting to remote DRIVES?
 
Weird problem

I've got one strange question....OsX and XP (SP2) are normaly connected but when i'm transfering datas from PB to XP it goes fast(as it should with 100MB lan cards) but if i'm transfering from XP to PB it is going eeeeextremly slow! How is that posssible and does anyone knows how to solve this??
Thanx a lot...
mladen
 
Error -43, some kind of cosmic joke

Ok, I've read every post in this thread and AFAIK followed all instructions with care and precision.
I cannot, however, get my mac and pc to share files and I'm beginning to suspect some kind of cosmic joke is being played that no matter what I do the result is always the same; error -43.
I'm not laughing much though.

Both computers are aware of the other and I can follow the login procedure without issue but the once I have, for example, the pc shared folder on the mac desktop and I try and do anything, I'm told that the server has disconnected.
When I try it the other way I eventually get a not responding message.

OS X 10.3.9
Windows XP Pro SP2

I've read Apple's guide to resolving the -43 issue but it's of no help whatsoever as none of the suggested causes seem to have much relevance.

Anybody else experienced this kind of madness?
I'm starting to think that it just isn't meant to be.

Thanks,
Yan
 
Incredibly Slow Transfers

I have an external FW drive connected to my Mac Mini which is shared on the network.

On my XP laptop, i can browse the network, see the Mini, navigate to the External FW drive, and navigate elsewhere just fine.

However, the file transfers are incredibly slow. A 200k picture transfers in a jiffy, but anything over 1-2mb can take minutes. A 6mb mp3 just took nearly 10 minutes to transfer from the PC -> Apple.

Any ideas?
 
edesignuk said:
It is important that the account you log in with on your XP system has a password set, if it does not you will not be able to login to your Windows share from OS X.
Click to expand...

I don't have any password set for my XP user account and I can connect and share pc>mac and mac>pc just fine. How come I can do this? 10.4.5

edesignuk said:
You need to put your Mac in the same workgroup as your Windows PC.
Click to expand...

I also found that I could connect to my windows share from my mac without being in the same workgroup as the PC. I couldn't connect pc>mac though.
 
Don M. said:
1. Most users don't set a default local password on their main account. If you do so (as per this guide) you'll have to login every time you start your machine. For home users, a bit annoying.
.
Click to expand...

Using Tiger and XP Pro, I can mount a Windows share just fine and I don't have any password set for my XP user account.

When Tiger asks for my authentication for the share, leaving the password field blank and clicking OK gets me in just fine.

Did this work differently in Panther?
 
Finally did it...!

Hey, thanks for all the above...I have been trying to get an OS X 10.2.8 iBook to hook up with a WinTel Dell running XP directly via crossover Ethernet for a week! Ahhhhhhh!

I am an ametuer who knows enough to get into trouble.

The laptop would file share with a different WinTel XP via their wireless network no problem. Arrrr!

After trying everything and following all of the above tips, I still couldn't even get the IBook and WinTel to PING each other over the cross-over Ethernet cable...

I finally realized that the Dell was set up so that it's IP address was assigend dynamically by the DSL ISP. I had thought that just unplugging it from the DSL modem would fix this.

I just figured out that in XP it is a setting either Automatic or Manual IP addressing, and when I unplugged the DSL modem the computer had no IP address at all. I went into Network Connections in XP, clicked on the LAN Local Area Connection, clicked Change This Connections Setting, went to the TCP/IP section, and manually assigned an IP address similar but different at the end of the IBook. Wallah! The share opened right up.

The computer that I could share with over wireless had a static IP address and cable internet, not DSL. Duh.

Maybe this is obvious to everyone else, but it made my day to find it, after trying EVERYTHING else. But thanks for al the tips.
 
Hey.. Great Tutorial.. just one thing?? How do I share my internet connection, from my Windows PC to my mac. My modem is connected to my PC through the network card, and i've connected a wireless network card.. Now I want to configure my Windows to share the internet connection to my powerbook... Any ideas??
 
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