Merry Christmas to all who observe it !
Something odd is happening with my mac, which I gave up troubleshooting on my own.
In my home there are four other machines, which I'm in a network with; three laptops (win xp) and one desktop (windows 7); the network is accessible both wireless and 100MB ethernet.
I can access all win shared resources by the win machines; they can see my MAC when browsing with Windows explorer, but when trying to access, it says that it's not possible due to unknown reason, or insufficient privileges.
On my mac the firewall is turned off; I've enabled sharing, remote desktop, apache; ftp; every possible option - nothing worked.
one thing worth mentioning is that they can't even connect through ftp, or access my apache; as if I did not start any of these services. The only thing that shows sings of life is the ping to my mac and that is basically all.
It's not the firewall/ network; we've tried both wireless and wired and it cannot access my mac - it only shows up as a network neighbour??
macbook 10.6.2; no third party firewalls running or anything else; the ports on netstat are 'listening' and look fine.
any ideas, folks?
thank you
SOLVED!!!!!!!
sudo ipfw flush - did it all
Something odd is happening with my mac, which I gave up troubleshooting on my own.
In my home there are four other machines, which I'm in a network with; three laptops (win xp) and one desktop (windows 7); the network is accessible both wireless and 100MB ethernet.
I can access all win shared resources by the win machines; they can see my MAC when browsing with Windows explorer, but when trying to access, it says that it's not possible due to unknown reason, or insufficient privileges.
On my mac the firewall is turned off; I've enabled sharing, remote desktop, apache; ftp; every possible option - nothing worked.
one thing worth mentioning is that they can't even connect through ftp, or access my apache; as if I did not start any of these services. The only thing that shows sings of life is the ping to my mac and that is basically all.
It's not the firewall/ network; we've tried both wireless and wired and it cannot access my mac - it only shows up as a network neighbour??
macbook 10.6.2; no third party firewalls running or anything else; the ports on netstat are 'listening' and look fine.
any ideas, folks?
thank you
SOLVED!!!!!!!
sudo ipfw flush - did it all