Networking MAC to PC issue

[bkahl]

Ive gone through edesignuk's guide Networking Windows "(2000/XP/2003*) with Mac OS X (10.3/10.4)" to setup a network between my Mac and Windows XP machine. I can see my Mac in "My Network Places" on the XP machine, but when I attempt to connect to folders on the PC using Connect to server with the PC IP address and folder I want to access, I get an error saying the Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "smb://IP ADDRESS/FOLDER" could not be read or written.

Any help with figuring out this problem would be greatly appreciated.

I am wirelessly connected to the router via my Mac, the PC is hard wired, any potential for that to be a problem?

 

[balamw]

Is your XP firewall perhaps getting in the way?

Do you have another PC to make sure things are fully functional on your target PC?

B

 

[bkahl]

I disabled the XP firewall to test, and still had no luck.

Do not have another PC.

 

[::Lisa::]

Is the PC on the same workgroup?
I've not read the user guide you have so I don't know if that covers that side of things already and you have done that.

 

[balamw]

I tend to do most of my SMB debugging from Terminal.app since smbclient tends to give more informative error messages.

Open Terminal and try:

smbclient -L ip.ad.dr.ess

it should give you a list of shares.

Then try

smbclient \\\\ip.ad.dr.ess\\folder

and see what it says (Yes, you need the extra backslashes)

B

 

[bkahl]

When I go to the terminal, this is what I have done and gotten:

Last login: Sat Jan 5 12:56:09 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
brady-kahls-computer:~ kahlbj$ smbclient -L ip.add.re.ss
session request to ip.add.re.ss failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name)
brady-kahls-computer:~ kahlbj$


That help out at all? Im new to Macs, so maybe I am not doing this correctly?

 

[masterkain]

brady-kahls-computer:~ kahlbj$ smbclient -L ip.add.re.ss

lol,
substite the ip.add.re.ss with the correct ip from the remote machine.

 

[Benja0901]

I tend to do most of my SMB debugging from Terminal.app since smbclient tends to give more informative error messages.

Open Terminal and try:

smbclient -L ip.ad.dr.ess

it should give you a list of shares.

Then try

smbclient \\\\ip.ad.dr.ess\\folder

and see what it says (Yes, you need the extra backslashes)

B

No joy, here's what I get:
sh-3.2# smbclient -L 10.0.1.197
session request to 10.0.1.197 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 10 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name)
sh-3.2# ping 10.0.1.197
PING 10.0.1.197 (10.0.1.197): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=3.270 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=6.171 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.501 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.197: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.444 ms