it's not the folder name, it is its access. press command-i on the folder and check the permissions and change them as necessary. Before doing that, look on the windows side and see if you are sharing this folder if for instance, you access your pc from your Mac, it is my understanding that the entire drive needs to be shared unless you set a specific sharepoint for this folder on the Mac if that makes any sense. To get a grasp of this from the Mac side, examine the file sharing dialog in sharing in system prefs. It is backward it seems to me, it calls user sharepoint and sharepoint user so to make your folder readable and writeable to everyone negating the need for a password entry, ad a user, select the folder on your Mac you want to share in the first table and then select everyone in the second table and select read/write just to the right of everyone if this makes sense.
In windows, the folder you want to share must have share turned on and I think all the folders down to it needs to be set the same way and if you do get a password dialog using your mac, you can save it in your keychain if it is accessed successfully, so try accessing the windows folder, put in a user ID and password, I think this is the Mac user ID because it is your account that is being altered in order to access windows, check the save checkbox and click ok and you should never have to use the dialog again. I hope at least some of this makes sense, but from your message below, I am not sure what you have set up and how. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Macvisionaries list the blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:56 AM Subject: Ok, let's try again - file sharing between Mac and windows Hi folks. I've been doing a lot of reading in the Mac help and i'm a little less confused, but i still want to know a couple things: If i have nothing but the folder named "shared" as a shared folder, do i still have to type name and password to get in to see that folder? If so, is there a way to not have it so, if you see what i mean? Not that i want to have my computer wide open, i'm just trying to figure out what went on with the Mini that i borrowed, because i could get in to the computer without typing name and password and i didn't have any name and password stored on the pc side of things... But, at that time, i couldn't share folders at all, so only the "shared" folder was accessible. -- /Krister
