On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 10:08 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: > If you want to enable other machines to get at files on your machine, > you will need to install and/or enable Samba. It's the windows > compatible file sharing stuff for Unix and OS/X. > > If you want to be able to connect to other windows machines to get at > files on them, hit command K at the finder and you should be able to > browse the network, or put in a url that looks like: > > smb://MACHINE > > Where MACHINE is either the netbios/dns name/ip address of the machine > you want to connect to. I do this all the time on my G4 here at home, > as > well as my Lombard. > > Hope this helps.
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