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v7da1

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Original poster
Sep 5, 2011
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Australia
i have an external drive that is connected to my imac
i want to share this with my bros windows computer
i went to file sharing in system prefs and found i could do this
but thats as far as i got

basically i want my brother to see the hard drive on his windows 7 com wirelessly

any1 can help?
thankyou
 
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You got your hdd shared then on the windoze machine you will need to make sure in the network window it shows the mac then right click on my computer and then map network drive and the string is along the lines of \\mac\(drive)
 
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You got your hdd shared then on the windoze machine you will need to make sure in the network window it shows the mac then right click on my computer and then map network drive and the string is along the lines of \\mac\(drive)

so it shows up on my windows automatically?

ill try it the /// thingy

thank you for your quick response
 
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