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GUIDE: Networking Windows with OS X
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Thank you very much for the most informative information, I now have my iMac networked to my PC.
Thanks again, it was easy following your instructions, the only problem I had was working out that I had to manually configure Norton Firewall on the PC to allow access.
Thanks again, it was easy following your instructions, the only problem I had was working out that I had to manually configure Norton Firewall on the PC to allow access.
Yeah, firewalls will always cause problems on a LAN, but I leave you to figue that out for yourselfBig Fat Fred said:Thanks again, it was easy following your instructions, the only problem I had was working out that I had to manually configure Norton Firewall on the PC to allow access.
. Anyway, glad it all worked ok in the end .
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edesignuk = thank you SO much. This was just what I needed.
Tip - once I set everything up, I then did a right-click on my WIN machine's desktop and created a shortcut to the Mac. Now all i need do is click the little icon and *voila* I'm in.
edesignuk = thank you SO much. This was just what I needed.
Tip - once I set everything up, I then did a right-click on my WIN machine's desktop and created a shortcut to the Mac. Now all i need do is click the little icon and *voila* I'm in.
No problemOldManJimbo said:
Better yet just map a newtwork drive (just like you would a normal windows share) and set it to reconnect on login
I registered just for this thread! Of course I'm going to stick around, I've been meaning to register here anyway.
So my question... I've set up an ad-hoc wireless network in my dorm room. between my Windows XP Pro Desktop and G4 Powerbook running OS 10.3.5.
I've got some shares setup as described in this thread, however I am never prompted for a password. My logins for both machines were indeed the same, so I changed my login password on my Powerbook, but I am still able to browse my Powerbook from the desktop without ever having to put in a user name or password. I don't like this at all. I carry my Powerbook around campus connecting to wireless, and I'd rather not have other people freely browsing my computer. I'd also like to have a password setup on my Windows machine, because it is exposed to the whole network in my dorm building.
So basically, I need to know how to require authentication to get into my Windows Shares, and how to enable authentication for my Powerbook share. Hopefully I'm missing something obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Edit]
Ok, I did what usually helps with windows... I rebooted. After the reboot, it wouldn't let me access my Powerbook without the new password I setup for my user. GREAT. However, I can still access my shares located on my Windows machine from my Powerbook without having to type in any user names or passwords. So now my question is, how can I require a user name and password login for the share I have on my Windows machine?
[Edit 2]
Well I did some more digging and figured it out. Windows XP Home doesn't allow password protection of shares apparently. XP Pro does after you tinker with it some. This page was very helpful to me, for anyone else who's looking to do the same thing.
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/FileSharing/Windows/access2kxp.html
So my question... I've set up an ad-hoc wireless network in my dorm room. between my Windows XP Pro Desktop and G4 Powerbook running OS 10.3.5.
I've got some shares setup as described in this thread, however I am never prompted for a password. My logins for both machines were indeed the same, so I changed my login password on my Powerbook, but I am still able to browse my Powerbook from the desktop without ever having to put in a user name or password. I don't like this at all. I carry my Powerbook around campus connecting to wireless, and I'd rather not have other people freely browsing my computer. I'd also like to have a password setup on my Windows machine, because it is exposed to the whole network in my dorm building.
So basically, I need to know how to require authentication to get into my Windows Shares, and how to enable authentication for my Powerbook share. Hopefully I'm missing something obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Edit]
Ok, I did what usually helps with windows... I rebooted. After the reboot, it wouldn't let me access my Powerbook without the new password I setup for my user. GREAT. However, I can still access my shares located on my Windows machine from my Powerbook without having to type in any user names or passwords. So now my question is, how can I require a user name and password login for the share I have on my Windows machine?
[Edit 2]
Well I did some more digging and figured it out. Windows XP Home doesn't allow password protection of shares apparently. XP Pro does after you tinker with it some. This page was very helpful to me, for anyone else who's looking to do the same thing.
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/FileSharing/Windows/access2kxp.html
if I do all this, will I have no problems w/ sharing a printer...printer on the mac, or if the printer is on the pc? will there be any problems, anything else I need to know
I want to be able to connect my MAC and PC using a crossover cable. I am on a wireless network which works fine, but for transfering data, it is slow due to the fact of the distance of my PC. I have followed the steps of this thread, but I don't know if now the two are in fact transfering through the cable or through the wirelss network. Is there any way for me to be able to check this? It still seems to transfer slow, but before I start to transfer big files, I want to make sure it is infact going through the cable.
tdbaws said:
Y'know I was about to post almost the exact same question. I have an old Compaq Presario (700Mhz Duron, 192MB, WinME) which the rest of my family uses as their computer. Anyway, it's been (as one might expect) screwing up majorly of late, so I'm just gonna do a fresh install. I want to back up the HD onto my Powerbook first of all. I already had a wireless network set up, but for transferring 15GB I didn't think that was the best option. So, I went out, bought a NIC, installed it and have been struggling for the past two days to get my PB to talk to it. I have a crossover cable between the two, but it just ain't happening. I can't even ping the PC (through the NIC, but I can over WiFi). It would probably have been quicker to just do the slow transfer, but I'm determined to get it to work now. The NIC has an IP address, etc. but it just doesn't seem to be communicating to my PB.... any ideas?
Cheers guys!
josepho said:
What I tried last night was I created another network and just disabled the wireless one while I tried this. I can open up the status and it's shows stuff being sent and received, but I still can't find them and when I ping it says "host is down". whenever I just enter the IP's, it never finds them, so now I don't know. I'll probably continue to play with it today. I wondered if to transfer data of this size, would a firewire IEEE cable be better, since it does transfer data at faster speeds. anyone know if that would work?
in my opinion this way is easier. it was on the oreilly site. it works with win 2k and xp but i don't now if it'll work for 2k3.
first share the folder or drive you want to get files from or whatever. there are instructions in this guide on how to share a folder.
next find out the workgroup/domain and name of the pc. by right-clicking on "my computer" and click on "properties" then go to the tab "network identity(or something like that)" the name and domain/workgroup should be shown there.
now go to the mac with os x and go to the menubar and go to go>connect to server or just press cmd + k, then for the server address type in smb://"name of domain/workgroup";"name of computer"/"name of shared folder/drive" (without the quotes). a login windows thing should show up and you just put in the right login info for the pc and press connect or login or whatever.
for example say the workgroup/domain of the pc is "workgroup" the name of the computer is also "win2k" and the shared folder/drive is "shared". you would type in the server address box "smb://workgroup;win2k/shared" save it as a favorite server so you won't have to type it again if you forget.
sorry its so long. but this way you don't have to find out the ip address if it changes. but then it might not work with win2k3....
first share the folder or drive you want to get files from or whatever. there are instructions in this guide on how to share a folder.
next find out the workgroup/domain and name of the pc. by right-clicking on "my computer" and click on "properties" then go to the tab "network identity(or something like that)" the name and domain/workgroup should be shown there.
now go to the mac with os x and go to the menubar and go to go>connect to server or just press cmd + k, then for the server address type in smb://"name of domain/workgroup";"name of computer"/"name of shared folder/drive" (without the quotes). a login windows thing should show up and you just put in the right login info for the pc and press connect or login or whatever.
for example say the workgroup/domain of the pc is "workgroup" the name of the computer is also "win2k" and the shared folder/drive is "shared". you would type in the server address box "smb://workgroup;win2k/shared" save it as a favorite server so you won't have to type it again if you forget.
sorry its so long. but this way you don't have to find out the ip address if it changes. but then it might not work with win2k3....
Working
I got it working. I don't know what I did, but all I care is that it's working. I swear I just did the same thing over and over until it worked. Files that were going to take 7 hours to transfer over wireless are transfering in 5 mins over the cable.
I got it working. I don't know what I did, but all I care is that it's working. I swear I just did the same thing over and over until it worked. Files that were going to take 7 hours to transfer over wireless are transfering in 5 mins over the cable.
tdbaws said:
I finally got it working to, though I do have a little more explanation as to how I rectified the problem. My inability to Samba to the Windows PC over the ethernet connection (as opposed to over WiFi, which worked fine), was due to the fact that my network preferences in Mac OS X were such that it would always try to establish a connection over Airport before anything else. It would appear that the way it does it is that when I gave it the IP address of the NIC in the Windows computer it would try and ping that IP over Airport, and when it couldn't find it, it would just report that such a connection could be established, as opposed to then trying other methods...
Thus, what I had to do was to put Ethernet above Airport in the order of priorities (in network preferences)... this made it work absolutely fine... though it did mean that I was disconnected from my wireless network (and thus also the internet) for the duration of the time I was transferring files (approx. 1 hour).
Hope this might help someone else who has similar problems in the future!
Cheers!
I just found an interesting samba article on the Apple site. It was written in 2001 and a little out of date for Panther++ setups but anyway:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/osxsmb.html
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/osxsmb.html
help
now I am here in Greece and I am trying to get my laptop hooked up to my school's LAN of about 8 computers (all PC) and it's not showing up. Any ideas? I mean I should be able to just plug it in and have it detect all the right settings and then it work, but no such luck. any suggestions??
also, lately it has been taking a long time to boot up and I don't even have that much data on it. Help me out please
now I am here in Greece and I am trying to get my laptop hooked up to my school's LAN of about 8 computers (all PC) and it's not showing up. Any ideas? I mean I should be able to just plug it in and have it detect all the right settings and then it work, but no such luck. any suggestions??
also, lately it has been taking a long time to boot up and I don't even have that much data on it. Help me out please
This is a different issue (not file sharing related). I'd suggest you post a new thread asking for help so that people can see it and respond.tdbaws said:
User name issue
Edesignuk - I've been using this process to move files between my Mac and other PCs in the office for a couple of months - no problems.
Today - working on the PC and clicking my little "Jim's Mac" screen icon, I enter my user name and the dialog box says the Mac won't recognize it.
I recently had to run a re-install of the OS X files, could that have changed my user name or otherwise altered the connection between the Mac and PC?
I know the machines can "see" each other, and I have no problem connecting to the PC from the Mac, but can't get the Mac to "open it's door" to the PC when going in that direction.
Ideas?
Edesignuk - I've been using this process to move files between my Mac and other PCs in the office for a couple of months - no problems.
Today - working on the PC and clicking my little "Jim's Mac" screen icon, I enter my user name and the dialog box says the Mac won't recognize it.
I recently had to run a re-install of the OS X files, could that have changed my user name or otherwise altered the connection between the Mac and PC?
I know the machines can "see" each other, and I have no problem connecting to the PC from the Mac, but can't get the Mac to "open it's door" to the PC when going in that direction.
Ideas?
- OldManJimbo
Few things to check.
-Is Windows File Sharing still enabled on the Mac since the reinstall?
-Is the firewall turned off, or still allowing Windows File Sharing connections on the Mac since the reinstall?
-How is you shortcut on windows setup? \\mac.i.p.address\username or \\maccomputername\share, has either of these things changed on the Mac since the reinstall that would cause the shortcut not to work?
-Double check your OS X short username & password from the accounts section in system prefs.
Short of that, I'd re run though ALL the steps again and see what happens.
Good luck!
Few things to check.
-Is Windows File Sharing still enabled on the Mac since the reinstall?
-Is the firewall turned off, or still allowing Windows File Sharing connections on the Mac since the reinstall?
-How is you shortcut on windows setup? \\mac.i.p.address\username or \\maccomputername\share, has either of these things changed on the Mac since the reinstall that would cause the shortcut not to work?
-Double check your OS X short username & password from the accounts section in system prefs.
Short of that, I'd re run though ALL the steps again and see what happens.
Good luck!
now what?
Thank you - I have done everything again, from the beginning. Even un-clicked and re-clicked all the settings on both machines.
I must be missing something -
The Windows machine gives an error message "The specified network name is no longer available."
Thank you - I have done everything again, from the beginning. Even un-clicked and re-clicked all the settings on both machines.
I must be missing something -
The Windows machine gives an error message "The specified network name is no longer available."