networking G4 and windows 7

[uniqueusername4]

I have a "new to me" G4. When I GO > Connect to Server I see the 2 Windows 7 PC's that are on the same broadband firewall router, but I cant connect to the hard drives on those computers even though they are shared and can be read by other PC's. When I select one of the computers in the Connect to Server window, it shows the name of the computer, that it is part of the WORKGROUP windows networking and that the URL: smb:/ is 192.168.1.101. When I hit the Connect button a window pops up that needs my password and has the title SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication. Since I didn't set up OS X with a password, I just click OK and the error message "An error has occurred (error = 36)."

Any basic tutorials on Mac>PC networking or suggestions?

thansk, roger

 

[spinnerlys]

G4 is a PowerPC CPU by IBM and Windows 7 is an OS by Microsoft.

What Mac OS X do you have? 10.3.x or 104.x or 10.5.x?
To find out go to > About This Mac.

Also when the Connect To Server dialog asks you for a password, it doesn't want the Mac OS X account password you currently use, it wants to know the user and password of the PC you're trying to connect to.

Guides on networking can be found via a search engine of your choice: "network Mac OS X (or 10.3x or whatever version your have) and Windows 7".

 

[geoffreak]

Networking Windows with Mac OSX

 

[uniqueusername4]

10.2.8

I dont have a password for W7 either, so it should work.

and here i thought Macs were easy peasy, everything happens automatically! ;+)

 

[geoffreak]

and here i thought Macs were easy peasy, everything happens automatically!

That applies to newer Macs. You need a Mac with at least 10.4 to get some simplicity.

 

[spinnerlys]

10.2.8

I dont have a password for W7 either, so it should work.

and here i thought Macs were easy peasy, everything happens automatically! ;+)

Mac OS 10.2.8 is quite an old Mac OS version, even compared to Windows 7. But we already talked about this in another thread of yours and you getting at least 10.3.x, better 10.4.x.

Can you ping the Windows machine via Mac OS X's Terminal?

TERMINAL:

Last login: Thu Jul 30 02:02:14 on console
machine name:~ account name$ ping 192.168.1.101

 

[uniqueusername4]

i think i'll stop asking questions until i have at least 10.4 on there, it seems like OS X 10.2.8 is kinda like Windows 98.

I tried the settings on the tutorial, same result, thanks for the suggestions.