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Sharing files and printers between Mac and Windows

  • 13-09-2008 8:43pm
    #1
    alan4cult
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭


    Hi I'm a new Mac owner, just got my first Macbook
    (Leopard) yesterday.

    I'm trying to configure sharing files and printers between my Windows computers and my Mac. Both the Windows Computers belong to the Workgroup name: MSHOME. I have also changed the Workgroup name on my Mac to MSHOME under Network in System Preferences.

    Now the Mac shows up in My Network Places on both my Windows Machines and I can browse files however I am unable to browse through the network on my Mac. When I open Finder and Network nothing appears. I realise that I could manually Click Go and Connect to Server and then mount the folders I want but I have read some Internet tutorials and they say the computers should appear in Finder once a common workgroup name exists. Also, I cannot add the printers (connected to one of my Windows machines). I hope somebody can help and if you need more info just ask?


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  • #2
    Pete4779
    Closed Accounts Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Pete4779


    are your pcs windows vista? Does OSX support LLDP?


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    I'm having a similar problem with a new MacBook at the moment. Thing is that on my own network with a PowerMac, MacBook Pro and a HackPro (all 10.5.4) all these machines have no problem at all accessing the Vista Box I have here. In Vistas Networking and Sharing panel I enabled all the options. I can't see them right now but I'll get back in a while with the configuration. One of these options was to enable the Vista Machine to be seen on the local network. Also have you enabled a folder to be shared on the Vista machine ?

    Another thing I noticed is that when accessing the Mac from Vista the username must be admin rather than the user logged on to the Mac.

    ZEN


  • #4
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Ok the fix for the MacBook here was to enter the i.p. of a WINS server in the network control panel and the Workgroup name (seems to be case sensitive so workgroup is different to Workgroup or WORKGROUP).

    Choose the ip of the first Windows machine that was switched on as it will have elected itself the Master Browser for the workgroup during that session. Once I did this it didn't matter if the ip was later deleted, the Mac continued to see all the Windows computers on the network. It's also important to share something on the Vista box it seems.

    I'm guessing this as in the clients home there were 2 Windows boxes - 1 Vista, 1 XP and neither showed in the Shared section in Finder. Once introduced to my network, where there is a WINS server (FreeNAS) whose ip is given when a machine requests information via DHCP, all machines appeared. Once back in the clients home it worked fine again !!? There were no alterations to the MacBook for this to happen.

    Hope this helps, I'm not too well up on Windows networking - only some small bits I learned from Samba on the Linux platform a few years back when Windows NT4 was the preferred OS in offices.

    ZEN


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