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  • From: Lyman Green <lymang AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Mac to PC file sharing woes
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:35:46 -0400

I never had luck with using native filesharing. The best way I worked
it out when I did was to run an FTP server on the mac and do FTP file
transferring. That always worked and didn't pull workgroups, MS
Filesharing, SMB, etc into the mix. I used to run Anarchy on the Mac
since it was free/cheap and a great web/ftp server all rolled into
one.

Lyman

On 10/11/05, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
> I gave up on moving files back and forth from my Windows machine and my Mac
> a couple of months ago but I decided to tackle it again last night with no
> luck.
>
> I've turned on windows file sharing on the mac. I've made sure SMB is
> enabled and I've set the workgroup in Samba to the same work group that all
> my windows machines use. I renamed the Mac to a short name with no
> non-alpha characters and no spaces. I've even turned off the bloody
> firewall but I still cannot see the Mac when I browse the network on the
> Windows machine.
>
> I did see the Mac once before I moved it to the standard workgroup name I
> use. It was under a workgroup named "WORKGROUP" and it had a funky name
> like 'Mac OSX -(Tony's Computer)' but clicking on it resulting in some error
> about unable to connect.
>
> Will upgrading to Tiger make things any easier? Maybe this stinking
> AdmitMac software I installed is causing the problem? (I've been unable to
> remove the bastard).
>
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> Mac - OS X Jaguar
> Windows - XP service pack 2 (firewall disabled)
>
> Tony
>
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