Sorry for the long title. Here's the problem:
I have a mini with a number of drives (two internal, a few more connected via USB3 and Firewire). I have filesharing turned on (+SMB). From any other Mac on my network, I can log in using my admin account and access every drive. However, from a new Acer Windows 8.1 machine, while I can log in using my mini's Admin credentials and can see all the drives, I can only get into my Home folder on the mini. If I double-click on any of the drives, I see a green progress bar growing across the path name (at the top of the window) but the drive never actually opens; I just get the spinning blue circle and the green progress bar goes all the way to the end of the path bar and sits there. Nothing has crashed, however. I can close that window and do anything else.
I seem to recall some sort of registry hack was necessary to permit seamless filesharing on Win7 but that may have been from a Mac over to Windows and not the other way around.
Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks,
Barry
I have a mini with a number of drives (two internal, a few more connected via USB3 and Firewire). I have filesharing turned on (+SMB). From any other Mac on my network, I can log in using my admin account and access every drive. However, from a new Acer Windows 8.1 machine, while I can log in using my mini's Admin credentials and can see all the drives, I can only get into my Home folder on the mini. If I double-click on any of the drives, I see a green progress bar growing across the path name (at the top of the window) but the drive never actually opens; I just get the spinning blue circle and the green progress bar goes all the way to the end of the path bar and sits there. Nothing has crashed, however. I can close that window and do anything else.
I seem to recall some sort of registry hack was necessary to permit seamless filesharing on Win7 but that may have been from a Mac over to Windows and not the other way around.
Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks,
Barry