Windows uses Server Message Block protocol or SMB for file and printer
sharing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
There was an effort to make an open source SMB server/client package
called Samba which was ported to many platforms including OSX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)
CB
On 8/15/11 2:28 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi list,
If you encounter the following problem under Lion, I may have found a solution
by pure luck.
Problem:
Under snow leopard, I could access a share point on an xp machine. I did this
by pressing command plus k on the mac. A dialog would appear, asking the
address of the server to connect to, the user name and password for the windows
user account to log in to on the windows server machine, and which shares to
mount from the windows machine on to the mac. If this sounds familiar to you,
then read on.
Under Lion however, this same procedure, i.e. trying to log in to my windows
machine from my mac, won't work any longer. I don't know why, but I do know how
to work around it.
In the command k dialog, you normally enter the protocol to use, followed by
the netbios name of the windows machine. Say that the windows machine that I
want to log in to from my mac is called paulserver, then from my mac, I would
issue a command k, and then type in:
smb://paulserver
and press enter. The connect button is the default command button in the
connect to server dialog, so just pressing enter after typing where to connect
to will do, without having to go through the rest of the dialog.
The smb:// prefix is just the way that you tell your mac how to approach the
windows pc. It will be familiar to many of us, because on the internet, You use
the http protocol to ask a page from a web server, and therefore you normally
start the address with http://. Likewise, you can approach an ftp server using
the prefix: ftp://. A windows machine uses a microsoft protocol, and from what
I remember from reading about the unix world, these guys call the windows
networking protocol samba. S a m b a. Its prefix is therefore named smb://.
Under Lion, the netbios name of the windows computer seems to be the problem.
If you simply replace that name with the ip address of that same computer, the
mac command k dialog suddenly works. I saw an interesting message on this list,
how you could mount a windows share on the mac using terminal. However, I am
not at all familiar with terminal yet. And while I was frighing my hamburger,
it occurred to me that I could just as well try the ip address rather than the
netbios pc name, and this seems to do it.
By the way if you don't know the ip address of your windows box, do the
following on windows: start your command prompt. There, type
ipconfig
and press enter. That is: i p c o n f i g.
Windows will tell you the ip address of the windows box, along with a few other
bits of information. You need the ip address, not the gateway address. To close
your windows command prompt, type exit on a new line and the window will close.
In the mac command k dialog, now use
smb:// directly followed by your windows pc's ip address and hit enter. Now,
you can log in normally.
So ,if you previously connected to a windows pc from your mac using the method
I described and it won't do it any longer under Lion, I hope this is the
solution for you as well. Any extra bits of knowledge around this topic are
highly welcome.
Paul.
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