Hi, have you tried disabling any firewalls including windows firewall? Also , have you tried making a network location named after your windows work group on the mac so that windows thinks your mac belongs to that workgroup?
Best, Erik Burggraaf Currently on ebony promos: Ebony consulting on android accessibility, New drive imaging services available. To read more and subscribe, visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-03-03, at 5:11 PM, Claus Thøgersen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Mac Mini running 10.6.7. I want to use it as a media server to > stream my music from. > This means I have to be able to access files from my Windows pcs. > > I have followed the guides on how to setup Windows file sharing, enabling > smb, and give the correct workgroup Name, setting up folders to share and the > permissions for both my regular mac user account and guest account, all users > have both read and write access to the shared folders. > > I can access both my Windows computers from the mac. I can ping the mac from > the Windows machines, but I cannot access the Mac, it does not show up in the > network list on the Windows machines. I get the usual Windows network error > both when I try to connect to the Minis IP address, or using the machine > Name. > > In my setup I need to be able to access the Mac from the windows machines, > the application that controls the streaming is a Windows application. > > I have gone over setup for file sharing, the only problem is that it does not > work. On the net there is not a lot of guides on how to troubleshoot this > problem. > Regards > > Claus > > -- > 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.
