Likewise you can turn on SMB sharing on your Mac and then mount your mac
hard drive on your PC. Just depends on which way you want to go. For me
I use a Mac as a 'server' and mount it's drives on my PC. My PC,
currently XP, isn't backed up or anything since I just use it to test
stuff but the Mac is on Time Machine so anything I store there is
relatively safe.
CB
On 9/19/11 4:54 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Allison,
One way to share files between windows 7, is what I think you have,
and a mac, can be done, but it is a 2-way configuration. I haven't
played much with accessing mac files from a windows computer, because
I always work on my mac since I have it. Because once you go mac,
you'll never go back. But the other way around is simple, as long as
you have some information collected beforehand. So I will describe how
to connect to a windows machine from one of your macs. The other way
back, how to connect from windows to a mac share, I don't have enough
experience with.
Before I tell you how you do it, here's what you are striving for to
begin with. On your windows pc, you have a share. This is something
like the my documents folder, an entire drive, or anything present for
that matter. On the mac side, you have your finder. Where you would go
into my network places on windows to find other computers, the mac
does it differently. On the desktop, and in some other places, once
you get file sharing working, you will have a new icon. If you open
it, you will be accessing your windows files. It is that simple, but
if you've never done it before, a little more to know before you have
it working.
To access your windows machine from a mac:
1. You need to know the network name of your windows pc that you want
to access. If you already have a network set up, this will be
familiar. If you don't know the windows computer network name of the
pc you want to get into from your mac, you will need is ip address. If
you don't know how to do one of these and you need it, let me know.
2. You need to have an account on the windows computer to log in to.
Because windows 7 is already set up on your side, you will indeed have
a user account, possibly with a password. When you work in windows 7,
you are logged in under your own account, that is usually created when
windows was set up.
You use the same name and password to log in to windows if you do it
over a network This is the name and password you will have to have
ready. If not, then you wil need to set up a password associated with
your user account on the windows pc, because without a password,
sharing will not work this way.
3. Now that you know the network name of the windows pc, and you have
a username and password, it is time to Connect. To do this, from your
mac, in the finder, hit command k. This is a keystroke belonging to
the go menu. It lets you connect to a server. From a mac perspective,
a file hoster like your windows pc is a file server. A dialog comes up.
4. In the text field that you land in, fill in the protocol and the
address of the windows pc and hit connect. The protocol that you
always want to use is smb, as in server message block. Don't worry
about what it is. The first five characters of the text to type in
here, is always: smb://. That is s, m, b, colon, slash, slash.
5. Now say, that the pc you want to log in to is called Allison. Then
the full line you type in is:
smb://Allison
That is all without spaces. So first s m b colon slash slash, those 5
characters, and then the pc name, Allison for this example.
6. You can now select, which shares from windows you want to see on
your mac. In this dialog on your mac, you may see somelike my
documents, drive d, etc.
Just select one or more from the list and confirm. I think there's
just a normal ok button.
7. Your windows share will now be mounted in finder. You can find it
on your desktop and you can open it with command down arrow, and close
it with command w.
Note: in windows 7, you may have to do a little bit more to set up
file sharing to be allowed than you would on an xp machine. From what
I understand, you have multiple windows machines. If one of them is
windows 7 and another is xp, and you can perfectly see your windows 7
files from an xp machine, then you can be sure that file sharing for
this win7 pc will also work from a mac.
Hth,
Paul.
On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Allison Mervis wrote:
Hi Scott.
Thanks so much for your response. All of the pc's and both macs are
successfully connected to the network, either via WIFI or Ethernet.
However, I want to be able to share files between all of the
machines. On the pc's, I'm able to go into the network and sharing
center, see all of the computers in the home group, and copy files
and folders between them. Can this be done on the mac? Thanks again.
Allison
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[mailto:[email protected]]*On Behalf Of*Scott Howell
*Sent:*Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:49 PM
*To:*[email protected]
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*Subject:*Re: Question regarding home networking.
Allison,
Adding the MInis would be no different than adding the PCs. In fact
once you turn on wireless networking or connect them via ethernet,
assuming your network is configured using dhcp, the Minis will pull
IP addresses from the router.
On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Allison Mervis wrote:
Hi everyone.
My boyfriend and I currently have all of the PC's in our house
networked via a home group. We recently purchased Mac minis, and we
would like to add them to the network as well. How exactly is this
accomplished? Is the fact that the network was originally created on
a PC going to cause issues? Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks so much.
Allison
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