Networking Win XP with OSX 10.4.8

[Sacohen]

Ok. I've got the co,puters seeing each other, but when I access the Mac system from my XP box I can only see my master drive. I would like to be able to see the slave drive and the firewire drives.

Is this possible and what needs to be done to do it.

I read something about editing your smb.conf, but could not find any information on how to do this.

Thanks;

Steve

 

[aristobrat]

This shareware application might help:
http://hornware.com/sharepoints/

 

[Sacohen]

Thanks;

That program did exactly what I wanted it to, but is there anyway to do it without extra software?

Thanks again;

Steve

 

[aristobrat]

From what I understand, that program is just a front end to the SMB.CONF and other config files, so you could probably look around your /etc directory, see what it did to the files, and then modify future files by hand.

Glad it worked though.

 

[Westside guy]

From what I understand, that program is just a front end to the SMB.CONF and other config files, so you could probably look around your /etc directory, see what it did to the files, and then modify future files by hand.

It's likely only smb.conf needs to be modified. It's a lot like OS X's firewall - there's a lot more power under the hood than what's available via Apple's GUI.

I'd suggest making a copy of smb.conf before messing around with anything; then go to Samba's website and work your way through the documentation. Really all you'll need to do is look at the docs for smb.conf though (available on the site).

 

[superbovine]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Networking_Windows_with_Mac_OS_X

this will get your setup.

 

[aristobrat]

Hmmm, I didn't catch anything there that helps with setting up additional Mac shares.