Will give that a try. Called Apple last night and the service guy checked with his supervisor who said you can't connect to a fat32 usb drive partition from a PC. Doesn't sound right to me, though.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File sharing with Lion I've posted some recent recipies on connecting windows and mac in the past few days. Maybe some of those would help. In general if the Mac can access the drive you should be able to share it over the network but maybe there are some special exceptions. In general you'll need to have file sharing turned on, then be sure to enable smb sharing, then turn on smb access for any users you want to get in. From the PC side you need to use the \\ip_of_your_mac\shortname_of_your_mac_username to connect from windows. Then you have to use the link on windows to use a different user name since you want to use your mac account shortname and password, not some credentials Windows made up. CB On 9/24/11 1:38 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Still having trouble with this. The drive is indeed on the shared table. I have selected all the methods to share files with macs and Windows. I went to the add user dialog and added my account name, the same name and password I use for both my Mac and PC. I checked with my wife to make sure I was typing the password in correctly when I added the user. My user name shows up in the table of users, the drive shows up in the shared table. But when I go back to my PC and try to acces the drive I get the name and password dialog, but it tells me user or password is incorrect. Any other suggestions much appreciated. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 6:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File sharing with Lion Bill, Is the fat32 drive, that is connected to your mac as you wrote, indeed part of the shared folders list in sysprefs, sharon, shared folders? Hth, Paul. On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Trying to get at the fat 32 formatted drive partition on my Mac from my Win 7 computer. I have file sharing enabled, and I went to the win formatted drive, called up info and checked file sharing. Funny thing is, even though I keep getting an error when I try accessing the drive from my win box I can access the Mac HD, and was even able to save a file from word on the Mac desktop, despite the fact that the Mac HD has file sharing disabled. I did check the share checkboxes, I even reversed them, no help. I have the same logon and password on my Win box and my Mac Mini. I set up file sharing for my login account. Not sure what else to try. Any help appreciated. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
