Paul. Thank you so so much. That's great!
I see why it wasn't working before. I think it was mainly because I didn't
have symple file sharing turned off.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Erkens" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Setting up file Sharing, Was: Re: found a solution for command
k not working dialog
Chris,
A brief answer to avoid being off topic. To connect to your xp pro box from
the mac, do the following in xp pro.
Turn off simple file sharing and then share the windows drive with full
control permissions. Here's how.
From the control panel and then folder options, go to the second tab sheet
called view, and there, turn simple file sharing off. Then, go into the my
computer icon, go to the drive to share, open the context menu with shift
f10, find sharing and security, hit enter to open its dialog, and fill in
the following. The share name can be whatever, as long as you know what it
is. Go to the permissions button. This opens a new dialog. Hit tab 3 times
to get to the permit column, and tick the topmost checkbox so that the
people accessing the share you are creating, will have full control in it.
Okay the permissions dialog, and okay the sharing dialog. Now you have your
share set up. On the mac, hit command k and there you go. Hope this helps.
Paul.
On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
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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