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networking problem -

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Heart Break Kid

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Feb 13, 2003
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Toronto
I have a wireless network setup at home for my PEECEES. They all connect via M$ broadband base station and recievers. My 17" PB logs on to the network no problem and thats how I surf the net. The problem I have is trying to access files on other computers. While in my room on my DELL, I can easily access the files on a computer in another room by just going to My Network Places. THe thing is, I cant see my Mac listed in the MY NETWORK PLACES folder, and I dont know where to look for the other computers on the mac - I dont know where the equivilent for MY NETWORK PLACES folder is on my mac. I would appreciate any help you can send my way on how to overcome this little problem. :) I am a new switcher and am unsure of how to do this. Thanks again

The computers that are on the network are running WIN XP and WIN 98
 
Have you tried "Connect to Server" (Command + K) under your Finder's "Go" menu?

It should list any SMB shares coming from PCs on your local network.
 
rower -

i guess i shouldnt be surprised. it was one of the reasons i switched. i appreciate the quick and timley response. you took 2 min to reply to my post - microsoft had my on hold for 2 hours :| and still nothing. it worked. thank you very very much. thank you :D

i can finally listen to mp3's without dling them onto my laptop. just stream it over from my dell
 
I think I spoke too soon. I can now access all the files on the hardrive of the WIN 98 peecees, but not the XP. It seems when it comes to the peecee i can only access files located in the MY SHARED DOCUMENTS. I actually have a secondary harddrive installed on that peeceee, and when I click the share option, it wont show up on my mac. It seems the mac only recognizes the SHARE DOCUMENTS folder. Because that folder is on the C: drive and not the D (my second hardrive) i cant drag and drop the movie and music files i want to acceess into that folder due to space constraints. Any Ideas?
 
Yeah, usually Windows doesn't want you to share an entire drive. It should be possible, though.

If you can't get it, maybe just share individual folders inside the D drive.
 
tried that

but the mac wont read it
when i try to connect it says error -43 or something like that

hmmm damn - was soo hoping itd work
 
just tried that

but now it wont even let me get onto the computer - says "an error has occured (error = -43)"

and when i try to log onto the other computers it says - "an error has occured (error = -36) "


:(

did i break it?
 
It is possible the windows machine won't let you log into it unless you are logging into the windows machine with your mac using an account name the windows machine will recognize (i.e. is your account name on both machines the same?). Maybe that is important.
 
its the same

i just did something stupid - i deleted the keychain file labled with my username - is there anyway to undelete?
 
ok

just logged back on to those computers

it recognizes only the my documents folder for the xp - but recognizes the entire drive for the win 98. this is strange - any other suggestions?

the linking it thru a short cut does not seem to work
 
I can't check out XP sharing until Monday...but I swear I've been able to share a whole drive.

You've got admin priveleges when directly on the XP machine, right?
 
i got it guys!

i linked the entire drive
dunno why it took soo long to recognize

but appreciate your quick and timley responses
it means alot to me knowing that all i need to do is post an issue and have it solved :D
 
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