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odinsride

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Apr 11, 2007
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I have a folder shared on my PC (Vista Ultimate x64). I have been able to read/write to it with my MBP for the past month with no problems, but all of a sudden it now mounts with no files displayed, and if I try to copy a file to it, it goes through the copying progress dialog but once it's done, nothing is there.

If i refresh the share on my vista machine while copying a file to it, the file shows up there, but once the transfer is over everything mysteriously disappears.

I have tried rebooting my Mac, and tried removing and recreating the share, but no luck.

Any ideas???
 
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Have you used third party software to enable read/writing to what I assume is an NTFS drive? Perhaps it was a trial and has expired?
 
No, I haven't. Macs should be able to read/write to NTFS shares over a network by default.
 
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I would right click on the folder in question(from windows) and just check the permissions.
My windows machine has a habit of forgetting settings

Edit, sorry just re-read your post, no idea what to suggest.
 
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odinsride said:
No, I haven't. Macs should be able to read/write to NTFS shares over a network by default.

I wasn't aware of that. I thought reading would work but not writing.
 
upon fiddling with some of the settings under Sharing in sys prefs It now magically works again. mac/pc networking is such a headache! :(
 
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