On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Norm Rowe wrote:
> > OS 10.5.5 on PPC mac. Have a Compaq Laptop with win vista. I know > but my > wife loves windoz. The lap top was sent in for repairs and came back > with Vista reloaded and all her stuff gone. I use to be able to access > her pc from my mac. Found that the ip address was changed. Under > network > her pc does not show up. If I click on "connect to" with the new ip > address I'm asked for administrator user name and password. Nothing I > put in works. I do not know much about vista. Any one know how to set > this up? I had the exact same problem when I bought my Toshiba laptop recently. There is a well known problem which has to do with the way passwords are handled between Vista and Samba. Check this link for details on how to fix the problem. http://thinkabdul.com/2007/03/11/tip-how-to-enable-network-file- sharing-between-windows-vista-and-mac-os-x-or-linux/ HTH Just a message from Doug... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
