Hi Chris Blouche, Took a day before I get back, but how can you share another folder than the default public one? There is a button called add share point, but this seems to add a new user and not another folder to share. How can I share, say, my mac documents folder to windows over smb? Paul.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Likewise you can turn on SMB sharing on your Mac and then mount your mac hard > drive on your PC. Just depends on which way you want to go. For me I use a > Mac as a 'server' and mount it's drives on my PC. My PC, currently XP, isn't > backed up or anything since I just use it to test stuff but the Mac is on > Time Machine so anything I store there is relatively safe. > > CB > > On 9/19/11 4:54 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >> Hi Allison, >> One way to share files between windows 7, is what I think you have, and a >> mac, can be done, but it is a 2-way configuration. I haven't played much >> with accessing mac files from a windows computer, because I always work on >> my mac since I have it. Because once you go mac, you'll never go back. But >> the other way around is simple, as long as you have some information >> collected beforehand. So I will describe how to connect to a windows machine >> from one of your macs. The other way back, how to connect from windows to a >> mac share, I don't have enough experience with. >> >> Before I tell you how you do it, here's what you are striving for to begin >> with. On your windows pc, you have a share. This is something like the my >> documents folder, an entire drive, or anything present for that matter. On >> the mac side, you have your finder. Where you would go into my network >> places on windows to find other computers, the mac does it differently. On >> the desktop, and in some other places, once you get file sharing working, >> you will have a new icon. If you open it, you will be accessing your windows >> files. It is that simple, but if you've never done it before, a little more >> to know before you have it working. >> >> To access your windows machine from a mac: >> 1. You need to know the network name of your windows pc that you want to >> access. If you already have a network set up, this will be familiar. If you >> don't know the windows computer network name of the pc you want to get into >> from your mac, you will need is ip address. If you don't know how to do one >> of these and you need it, let me know. >> 2. You need to have an account on the windows computer to log in to. Because >> windows 7 is already set up on your side, you will indeed have a user >> account, possibly with a password. When you work in windows 7, you are >> logged in under your own account, that is usually created when windows was >> set up. >> You use the same name and password to log in to windows if you do it over a >> network This is the name and password you will have to have ready. If not, >> then you wil need to set up a password associated with your user account on >> the windows pc, because without a password, sharing will not work this way. >> 3. Now that you know the network name of the windows pc, and you have a >> username and password, it is time to Connect. To do this, from your mac, in >> the finder, hit command k. This is a keystroke belonging to the go menu. It >> lets you connect to a server. From a mac perspective, a file hoster like >> your windows pc is a file server. A dialog comes up. >> 4. In the text field that you land in, fill in the protocol and the address >> of the windows pc and hit connect. The protocol that you always want to use >> is smb, as in server message block. Don't worry about what it is. The first >> five characters of the text to type in here, is always: smb://. That is s, >> m, b, colon, slash, slash. >> 5. Now say, that the pc you want to log in to is called Allison. Then the >> full line you type in is: >> smb://Allison >> That is all without spaces. So first s m b colon slash slash, those 5 >> characters, and then the pc name, Allison for this example. >> 6. You can now select, which shares from windows you want to see on your >> mac. In this dialog on your mac, you may see somelike my documents, drive d, >> etc. >> Just select one or more from the list and confirm. I think there's just a >> normal ok button. >> 7. Your windows share will now be mounted in finder. You can find it on your >> desktop and you can open it with command down arrow, and close it with >> command w. >> >> Note: in windows 7, you may have to do a little bit more to set up file >> sharing to be allowed than you would on an xp machine. From what I >> understand, you have multiple windows machines. If one of them is windows 7 >> and another is xp, and you can perfectly see your windows 7 files from an xp >> machine, then you can be sure that file sharing for this win7 pc will also >> work from a mac. >> Hth, >> Paul. >> On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Allison Mervis wrote: >> >>> Hi Scott. >>> Thanks so much for your response. All of the pc's and both macs are >>> successfully connected to the network, either via WIFI or Ethernet. >>> However, I want to be able to share files between all of the machines. On >>> the pc's, I'm able to go into the network and sharing center, see all of >>> the computers in the home group, and copy files and folders between them. >>> Can this be done on the mac? Thanks again. >>> Allison >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell >>> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:49 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Question regarding home networking. >>> >>> Allison, >>> >>> Adding the MInis would be no different than adding the PCs. In fact once >>> you turn on wireless networking or connect them via ethernet, assuming your >>> network is configured using dhcp, the Minis will pull IP addresses from the >>> router. >>> >>> On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Allison Mervis wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi everyone. >>> My boyfriend and I currently have all of the PC's in our house networked >>> via a home group. We recently purchased Mac minis, and we would like to add >>> them to the network as well. How exactly is this accomplished? Is the fact >>> that the network was originally created on a PC going to cause issues? Any >>> assistance would be greatly appreciated. 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