Windows XP & Mac networking issue

Try specifying the PC computer name when logging in:

<PC NAME>\<Username> as in PC1\administrator

Also, make sure your PC firewall is turned off or allows File/Printer Sharing.

 

Did you specifically share the root of your hard drive? It seems that the admin shares (C$, D$, etc) do not work as expected outside of a windows domain.

 

I am not sure if this is mentioned in the guide or not but when you give the folders on your PC a share name this share name cannot contain any spaces else your Mac will not recognize them.

 

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I was having a similar problem with my machine running tiger and one running xp. First off, i don't know if it is required, but i think it helps if the computers are on the same workgroup. You can find out the macs by going into directory access, and double clicking SMB/CIFS. To see the windows workgroup, right click my computer, go to properties, then the computer name tab. You can change the workgroup in there.

Next, I am running internet security and that was blocking my macs ip address. I needed to go in and configure the firewall to allow that ip address. My guess is that a firewall is preventing you from logging on.

Hope this helps

 

Not true..mine have spaces and the Mac sees it just fine.

As for the OP, make sure that everything is shared properly. Second, make sure no firewall, etc. is blocking access. Also, try a reboot of the XP machine, I had to do this before when I got that error message.