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[Craig Duncan <craigduncan AT entuend.com>]

Tony Spencer 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)
>  
I had a need to do this recently to backup my brotheri-in-laws computer 
before wiping it clean, and I seem to remember that I could connect to 
windows from the mac but not from the pc (or was it the other way 
around?) Anyway, it is possible, and I had set up a public share so that 
I didn't need to worry about authentication - have you tried that?