Hi Don, One way to browse your lan with a mac, is to hit command k from finder, which brings up a connect to server dialog. You will land inside an edit field, where you can type your destination and protocol directly, but there's also a browse button. If your windows pc's don't show up right there, you can also enter the protocol prefix plus the server address yourself into the edit field. Say your windows pc is called JohnPC, and you have a share set up on it in windows. Then, you will have to tell the mac to access that computer using the SMB protocol, which is the networking protocol that windows machines use to communicate. After hitting command k from finder, you could type: smb://JohnPC Then, if you hit connect or enter, and your mac did find the JohnPC on your lan, you can log in and it will ask you which volumes you want to mount, or in windows wording, which shares you want access to. Select them in the listbox, and they will mount on your desktop.
Note: if the computer name does not work, you can also get your windows machine's IP address, and connect to it this way: >From finder do the command k. In the dialog, you land in the edit field for >direct access. Type: smb://192.168.0.5, which will do the same thing. Of course, the IP address I mention is arbitrary for the example. File sharing should only be turned on on your mac, if you want to be able to access your mac's files from one of your windows computers. So, from the mac going out to windows, file sharing need not be enabled. Only if the mac shares out files, then turn file sharing on. Hth, Paul. On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:49 PM, don bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have at&t UVerse as my provider and using the router they provide. The > imac connects to it just fine and writing this on it now. However, I also > have 2 windows pc’s on the network. They can “see” each other just fine, but > I can’t get the mac to see them. I don’t see anything on the imac in network > settings which I should change, but I’m still rather new with the mac so > might be missing something. > Also looked at the sharing options on the imac and believe they’re set > correctly. > > Btw, using Mavericks here. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Don > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
