Paul,
What I want to know is I'm running XP Pro over here. Where on XP do I need
to go to make sure things are correctly set for me to connect to my machine
from my macbook? I have my workgroup set, and am not using the standard
Workgroup name of... quote: workgroup, end quote, as to me, that's not
secure enough. I know the I P address of my system, so that's no issue.
I've always had issues connecting my macbook to my Windows PC and vice
versa. I'm done it maybe once or twice, but I don't remember how I've set
it up, and this machine's been reformatted on the Windows side since then.
Basically, I want to access my entire C drive on my windows machine both
with read and write access trustees, from my mac, and I'd like from my
windows machine, to also have read/write trustee access to my Macintosh HD
volume, or if nothing else, at bare least, read access.
Thanks for the help.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Erkens" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 2:28 PM
Subject: found a solution for command k not working dialog
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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