Chris, A brief answer to avoid being off topic. To connect to your xp pro box from the mac, do the following in xp pro. Turn off simple file sharing and then share the windows drive with full control permissions. Here's how.
>From the control panel and then folder options, go to the second tab sheet >called view, and there, turn simple file sharing off. Then, go into the my >computer icon, go to the drive to share, open the context menu with shift f10, >find sharing and security, hit enter to open its dialog, and fill in the >following. The share name can be whatever, as long as you know what it is. Go >to the permissions button. This opens a new dialog. Hit tab 3 times to get to >the permit column, and tick the topmost checkbox so that the people accessing >the share you are creating, will have full control in it. Okay the permissions >dialog, and okay the sharing dialog. Now you have your share set up. On the >mac, hit command k and there you go. Hope this helps. Paul. On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Paul, > > What I want to know is I'm running XP Pro over here. Where on XP do I need > to go to make sure things are correctly set for me to connect to my machine > from my macbook? I have my workgroup set, and am not using the standard > Workgroup name of... quote: workgroup, end quote, as to me, that's not secure > enough. I know the I P address of my system, so that's no issue. > > I've always had issues connecting my macbook to my Windows PC and vice versa. > I'm done it maybe once or twice, but I don't remember how I've set it up, > and this machine's been reformatted on the Windows side since then. > > Basically, I want to access my entire C drive on my windows machine both with > read and write access trustees, from my mac, and I'd like from my windows > machine, to also have read/write trustee access to my Macintosh HD volume, or > if nothing else, at bare least, read access. > > Thanks for the help. > > Chris. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Erkens" <paul.erk...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 2:28 PM > Subject: found a solution for command k not working dialog > > > Hi list, > > If you encounter the following problem under Lion, I may have found a > solution by pure luck. > > Problem: > Under snow leopard, I could access a share point on an xp machine. I did this > by pressing command plus k on the mac. A dialog would appear, asking the > address of the server to connect to, the user name and password for the > windows user account to log in to on the windows server machine, and which > shares to mount from the windows machine on to the mac. If this sounds > familiar to you, then read on. > > Under Lion however, this same procedure, i.e. trying to log in to my windows > machine from my mac, won't work any longer. I don't know why, but I do know > how to work around it. > > In the command k dialog, you normally enter the protocol to use, followed by > the netbios name of the windows machine. Say that the windows machine that I > want to log in to from my mac is called paulserver, then from my mac, I would > issue a command k, and then type in: > smb://paulserver > and press enter. The connect button is the default command button in the > connect to server dialog, so just pressing enter after typing where to > connect to will do, without having to go through the rest of the dialog. > The smb:// prefix is just the way that you tell your mac how to approach the > windows pc. It will be familiar to many of us, because on the internet, You > use the http protocol to ask a page from a web server, and therefore you > normally start the address with http://. Likewise, you can approach an ftp > server using the prefix: ftp://. A windows machine uses a microsoft protocol, > and from what I remember from reading about the unix world, these guys call > the windows networking protocol samba. S a m b a. Its prefix is therefore > named smb://. > > Under Lion, the netbios name of the windows computer seems to be the problem. > If you simply replace that name with the ip address of that same computer, > the mac command k dialog suddenly works. I saw an interesting message on this > list, how you could mount a windows share on the mac using terminal. However, > I am not at all familiar with terminal yet. And while I was frighing my > hamburger, it occurred to me that I could just as well try the ip address > rather than the netbios pc name, and this seems to do it. > > By the way if you don't know the ip address of your windows box, do the > following on windows: start your command prompt. There, type > ipconfig > and press enter. That is: i p c o n f i g. > Windows will tell you the ip address of the windows box, along with a few > other bits of information. You need the ip address, not the gateway address. > To close your windows command prompt, type exit on a new line and the window > will close. In the mac command k dialog, now use > smb:// directly followed by your windows pc's ip address and hit enter. Now, > you can log in normally. > > So ,if you previously connected to a windows pc from your mac using the > method I described and it won't do it any longer under Lion, I hope this is > the solution for you as well. 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