maually connect to pc

[Tom Foolery]

i need to put some files on my pc, sometimes my mac connects perfectly to my pc other times, when all the settings seem to be the same it just won't connect, i want to know how to manually connect to the computer so i can connect whenever i need to
thanks

 

[jkhania]

good LUCK! if you find a way tell me, after tinkering with my damn computers for a couple days i gave up and used a flash drive

 

[Bobbi Flekman]

In Finder choose Connect to Server and enter the Unicode name, like this:

smb://MyComp


Mac <> Windows communication goes through Server Message Blocks, so you have to prepend the protocol before the computer.

I assume that since the computer shows the shares sometimes, that you are on the same workgroup, etc.