well, it's official! i am now a born-again mac head (used macs until 1998, then to windows/linux, now to beautiful mac os x!). yesterday i bought myself a 12" pb g4. i LOVE it. it's wonderful...
but im having some issues with our windows network in my apartment. i can map a shared folder on a windows machine, to be accessed by my mac (with limited success.. i sometimes get an "error = -5000", and had to logout and log back in to try again). but what i cant do is access my mac from the pc. how does one do this? in other words, how do i share specific folders on the mac to be accessed by pc users on my network? FYI - this is not a domain, but a windows workgroup.
another issue i have is root access. i never put in a root password, and as far as i can tell, there is no root account (or it's disabled). i am not going to destroy my partition, i just want root access for certain things (changing the hostname, specifically.. unless there is another way, other than in /etc/hostconfig).
Thanks in advance!
-tom
but im having some issues with our windows network in my apartment. i can map a shared folder on a windows machine, to be accessed by my mac (with limited success.. i sometimes get an "error = -5000", and had to logout and log back in to try again). but what i cant do is access my mac from the pc. how does one do this? in other words, how do i share specific folders on the mac to be accessed by pc users on my network? FYI - this is not a domain, but a windows workgroup.
another issue i have is root access. i never put in a root password, and as far as i can tell, there is no root account (or it's disabled). i am not going to destroy my partition, i just want root access for certain things (changing the hostname, specifically.. unless there is another way, other than in /etc/hostconfig).
Thanks in advance!
-tom
