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> ** Original Message follows... 

>    From: "Adam Pendse" <adampendse@...>
> Subject: [OT]  Networking OSX to WinXP
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i know this was mentioned a while back (Per?), but i cant remember the
> thread. Does anyone have the lowdown on this - i'm getting mixed 
> results at the moment, but think its something not set correctly on OSX. 
> Please email privately if this too off-topic, thanks,
> 

I haven't had much luck with this either. I use a PC to run Acid and FruityLoops. What I've had to do is create a new user in OS X, allow that user to log on from Windows, switch to my Windows computer and place the files I need to transfer into the users' or public folder in OS X. I have never been sucessful to accessing the files on the PC from OS X. I strongly suspect that the problem is from the PC end of things though...

There are several documents on Apple's site about OS X - XP networking. Haven't helped though.

Mars

On 04-01-24 19.05,  "mars@..." <mars@...> wrote:

> I have never been
> sucessful to accessing the files on the PC from OS X. I strongly suspect that
> the problem is from the PC end of things though...

For me it was much simpler to share a Win XP folder for the OSX machine then
the other way around. So I use the Mac to move files around the network.
Since I installed Panther, that is. On Jaguar the Mac was just banned by the
PC's ;-)

-- 
Best wishes

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.looproom.com

"mars@t..." <mars@t...> wrote:
> 
> > I have never been
> > sucessful to accessing the files on the PC from OS X. I strongly suspect 
> > that the problem is from the PC end of things though...
> 
 Per Boysen <per@b...> wrote:

> For me it was much simpler to share a Win XP folder for the OSX machine then
> the other way around. So I use the Mac to move files around the network.
> Since I installed Panther, that is. On Jaguar the Mac was just banned by the
> PC's ;-)

Whichever way you can get it to work. :)

I've found that enabling windows sharing on my mac (SysPrefs>Sharing) and then 
connecting to it from an XP machine with the IP address to be fairly painless. Map a network drive in an XP explorer window and enter your Mac's IP address and your username like this:

10.0.0.5/orbitborn

and then type your password. That'll give you access to your home directory on the mac.

Or you could setup a linux server and use samba / windows sharing between the 
two...

Or you could use smbclient in the terminal on your mac...

(I have too many computers)

> ** Original Message follows... 

>    From: "Adam Pendse" <adampendse@...>
> Subject: [OT]  Networking OSX to WinXP
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i know this was mentioned a while back (Per?), but i cant remember the
> thread. Does anyone have the lowdown on this - i'm getting mixed 
> results at the moment, but think its something not set correctly on OSX. 
> Please email privately if this too off-topic, thanks,
> 

Strangely enough, I finally got this working as advertised the other day. A client needed to transfer some PC files, so I stuck his drive in my PC, tried to connect - no luck. I went to the Mac, tried "connect to server" - which had failed repeatedly previously - and, wonder of wonders, it worked perfectly the 1st time. The shared folder appeared on my desktop and that was it. The only difference I could detect, was that this time, I had switched the PC on first. I usually do it the other way around. Also, the stuff was coming off the 2nd drive. I'll try it again when I get a chance.

Mars

>Strangely enough, I finally got this working as advertised the other day. A
client needed to
>transfer some PC files, so I stuck his drive in my PC, tried to connect -
no luck. I went to
>the Mac, tried "connect to server" - which had failed repeatedly
previously - and, wonder of
>wonders, it worked perfectly the 1st time. The shared folder appeared on my
desktop and that
>was it. The only difference I could detect, was that this time, I had
switched the PC on
>first. I usually do it the other way around. Also, the stuff was coming off
the 2nd drive.
>I'll try it again when I get a chance.

I've given up for the moment :-(
It'd be good to know how you get on.

Adam

This caused me a bit of grief for a while, but it works flawlessly now on
Panther.

Basically, in the finder go to the "Go" menu and select "Connect to Server".
Find your server and connect to it.  Once you've connected to it, it will
show up in the left sidebar of any finder window.  Click on the sidebar to
open the window into your XP server.

If you are not able to see the XP server when you go to connect to it..then
try enterting "samba://<machinename>"  where machinename is the name of your
XP machine.  If that doesn't work try "samba://<ipaddr>

If that doesn't work then you may need to configure OSX with this one tool
that I can't remember right now.  But I'm pretty sure Panther works out of
the box.

Once you do all that, its pretty easy to drag the icon from the left sidebar
in the finder window (after connecting) to your dock and then in the future
you can simply click on the dock icon and it will both connect and open the
window in one shot.

-steve

Thanks,

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Schow [mailto:steve@...]
Sent: 29 January 2004 23:27
To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [L-OT] re: [OT] Networking OSX to WinXP


This caused me a bit of grief for a while, but it works flawlessly now on
Panther.