help with sharing files between XP and 10.3

[rarora]

I need some help mounting my shared folder in 10.3

I have the folder to be shared selected, sharing enabled. All that is okay. when I try to 'Connect to server' i put in smb://ipaddress/foldername

it comes up with a login screen to logon to the XP machine. No matter what i put in, it tells me error code -36, could not be read or written. I look at the console and i found it generates the following error:

mount_smbfs: tree connect phase failed: syserr = RPC struct is bad

any ideas? this shouldn't be this hard....

xp firewall is disabled btw...please help

-new switcher

 

[abhishekit]

ur mac n xp may be in diffrnt workgroups..
so either
change the workgroup of your mac, by opening applications-utilities-directory access..click smb. clck configure
or
in connect to server, use this command
smb://work_group;user_name@netbios_name

here work_group is the workgroup of ur xp, user name and netbios name are also of ur xp...

if u dont know the netbiosname and workgroup of ur wondows machine, open terminal in ur mac..its in applications-utilities
write smbfind ...hit enter..it wd tell u..

cheers

 

[rarora]

Thanks for the quick reply. All the directory access options are greyed out for me. Dont' know why, I have admin privledges on the mac but it won't let me touch them.

Smbfind tells me command not found.

 

[rarora]

Sorry, I didnt' realize i had to click the lock to make changes. The workgroup names appear to be the same in XP and OS X. They are both called "WORKGROP"

 

[rarora]

Should there be an entry for the WINS server box?

 

[jeremy.king]

Did you happen to see this thread. May have all the answers you need.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/54704/

 

[abhishekit]

yah ..that sticky is very good..read it...and actually u should be able to connect without much fuss...i am not in the same workgroup as the windows machines in my house..but still , by smb://workgroup;...
i m able to get in..

 

[rarora]

Thanks for the thread link, I'll try that when i get home. I noticed that I didnt have a password setup for the admin account(the only acnt on the machine)...according the thread you have to have an acnt with an associated password....i setup a password late last night but still no luck....howerver, i haven't rebooted since....i'll try that when i get home tonight.

 

[ingenious]

Thanks for the thread link, I'll try that when i get home. I noticed that I didnt have a password setup for the admin account(the only acnt on the machine)...according the thread you have to have an acnt with an associated password....i setup a password late last night but still no luck....howerver, i haven't rebooted since....i'll try that when i get home tonight.

YOU NEED TO HAVE A PASS ON YOUR ADMIN ACCOUNT!


BTW, it shouldnt matter what workgroup they're in. My XP and PB r in diff workgroups (ie MSHOME and WORKGROUP) but i can still connect. It even (most of the time)shows up in the network side panel. I can get a pass prompt by going to go>connect to server>smb://XPbox/ watch on the login screen. Mac OS X does the shortname "firstlast." XP uses the Real Name "First Last" You need a space there to be able to login. then i select my SMB share and it mounts. I had some trouble yesterday, but that was when my netinfo thing was messed up if anyone saw that thread. let us know if u get it

 

[rarora]

Awesome guys, thanks, i got it to work. It was the admin w/out a password problem (for which I blame win xp, is it just me or does it not seem right to allow one to create an admin account without a password? does os x allow this as well?)

 

[bbarnhart]

Another thing to note when going from Mac -> PC is in the PC networking control panel -> IP -> Advanced -> WINS -> I had checked "Disable NetBios under TCP" (or something similar). I just solved this problem 5 minutes ago and I had been wondering why I couldn't get it to work.

I don't know how that got checked because this used to work months ago. Finally.