Hello I have been browsing this forum for the last few hours and have not yet found a solution for my problem and would really appreciate some help. I am very new to Macs, I bought a Mini yesterday and am attempting (read: failing) to set up my home network. Here is what I have:
Netgear WNDR3700 home network with a WPA2 wireless network.
A Windows 7 (completely updated) desktop with file sharing but not homegroup on. I have even deactivated my windows firewall while attempting to set this up.
A Mac Mini running OSX 10.4 with Windows Networking activated
I originally hoped to plug my mac mini in and, while I was quickly able to browse the web, I was less than successful in accessing my shared files that are on my windows 7 machine. I then deactivated the homegroup and simply "shared" the folders via right-clicking and sharing to all users on the network. I am unable to see the mac mini when opening up the network which was the first sign of trouble. I have all of the file sharing options on Windows 7 and Mac Mini checked (network discovery, etc.) but do not have any luck. The farthest success I have reached was I manually entered the ip of my windows 7 pc on the mac mini and while I saw the shared folders, they were empty.
Note: I do have identical user accounts set up between the two computers, with the same user name and no password.
I hope I provided enough information, feel free to let me know if you need anything else.
Thank you so much for any help you could provide!
Netgear WNDR3700 home network with a WPA2 wireless network.
A Windows 7 (completely updated) desktop with file sharing but not homegroup on. I have even deactivated my windows firewall while attempting to set this up.
A Mac Mini running OSX 10.4 with Windows Networking activated
I originally hoped to plug my mac mini in and, while I was quickly able to browse the web, I was less than successful in accessing my shared files that are on my windows 7 machine. I then deactivated the homegroup and simply "shared" the folders via right-clicking and sharing to all users on the network. I am unable to see the mac mini when opening up the network which was the first sign of trouble. I have all of the file sharing options on Windows 7 and Mac Mini checked (network discovery, etc.) but do not have any luck. The farthest success I have reached was I manually entered the ip of my windows 7 pc on the mac mini and while I saw the shared folders, they were empty.
Note: I do have identical user accounts set up between the two computers, with the same user name and no password.
I hope I provided enough information, feel free to let me know if you need anything else.
Thank you so much for any help you could provide!