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    Easiest way to file share between Leopard and Vista?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Jul 12, 2008.

  1. passive101

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    I'm having a heck of a time figuring this out. Does anyone know a good site that has step by step pictures or a video or something?
     
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    What sort of file sharing? Network connected, or what?

    Because I mean, you can just load files onto flash drives and plug it into the other computer, if you mean that sort of.

    Anyway, network-wise, read the "Migrate your files" section of this webpage :):

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304721
     
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    Yeah over the home network so we can share music or videos and transfer files between my macbook and my g/f's vista laptop.
     
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    I went into sharing and turned on SMB and put a check mark by my user name. I don't see a place where it shows what computers are on the network or even a place to manually enter an IP address.
     
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    do you want to access the vista files on a mac machine or vice versa?

    it is very simple on a mac running leopard, as long as you have sharing enabled on folders on the vista machine, it should show up in the sharing section of the finder sidebar.

    to access files on a mac from a vista machine, you need to have SMB enabled on the mac, so the PC can see it, then it is just a matter of entering the IP of the mac on your network into a windows exlporer window,

    ex. type "\\10.0.0.0" or whatever the IP of the Mac is, and you should be able to see what shared volumes are available or enter your password.

    i believe you should also be able to find available networked computers on vista under my network places or whatever it is on vista.
     
    circa86, Jul 13, 2008
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    I hit my Vista machine using:

    command K

    smb://192.168.x.x
     
    count_schemula, Jul 13, 2008
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    Go to System Preference -> Network, select your internet connection -> Advanced -> WINS tab and make sure you are in the right workgroup. Under netbios is the name of your mac. Under Windows in explorer, you should be able to go to //"computer name" with "computer name" substituted with the netbios name.
     
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    I have enabled all that. The only way I seem to be able to connect to the vista machine is with her user name and password though. She doesn't want to be giving that out all the time. It seems she also needs to do that to access the mac files.
     
    passive101, Jul 14, 2008
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    You will need a user name a password. Have her create another user that you will use for file sharing,
     
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    Ok from leopard I can now access the shared files on the vista machine. I did this by creating a new account in vista and use that with the user name and password I created for it. That works good.

    The vista machine can not access the Leopard machine yet though. I have the firewall off on both machines. The vista machine can see both my admin account and user account just fine. In my user account it can also see the public folder Drop Box. When I try to open that folder I get an error. It never asks for a user name or password to access it. Simply an error saying it can not connect to it. I have AFP and SMB enabled.

    What am I doing wrong?
    I made another folder shared and that does not show up in Vista.
     
    passive101, Jul 16, 2008
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