Need Help ASAP: OSX Networking

[Player0]

Familiar with OS9, havent used OSX yet.

Some guys want me to help get an OSX computer working so that it can see NT shares on XP boxes on the network.

I think OSX knows how to see NT shares but, might need special module installed. Not familiar at all, but I can figgure it out. Any advice someone could lend me would be great. Thx man.

[Synthohol]

On Mac OS X:
Click System Preferences -> Accounts
Select the desired user's home folder
Click Edit User
Click to check Allow user to log in from Windows
Click OK

Click System Preferences -> Sharing
Click to check Personal File Sharing
Click to check Windows File Sharing
Note your Mac's IP address at the bottom of the window (in the paragraph reading "Windows users can access your computer at (address).

To choose which Windows users can log in, open Accounts preferences and edit their user information."

On Windows XP:

Click on Start -> Search
Click on Computers or people -> A computer on the network
Enter the Mac's IP address that you noted above
Enter your OS X username and password
Set up a shared folder on XP:
Right-click on the folder to be shared
Click on Properties
Click on the Sharing tab
Click on Share this folder on the network (so the folder can be read by the Mac)
Click on Allow network users to change my files (so the folder can be written-to by the Mac)
Click on Apply
Click on OK

Access the shared XP folder from OS X:

Click on Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server
Click on the Server and PC to connect
Click on Connect
Enter your Mac username and password
Click on OK
Select the name of the shared folder to access
Click on OK
Your shared XP folder now appears on the Mac desktop, allowing you to copy files from XP or OS X to the folder and retrieve them on the other computer.


hope it helps:)

[Player0]

Good info, thanks.

Unfortunately, my boss squashed the idea of me helping the guys next door. Conflict of interest type deal I guess..

[Synthohol]

would you mind if i made the info a sticky? I'm sure its not an isolated need to know this stuff.? or perhaps an entry in the FAQ section :)

[Player0]

i never mind