On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 02:24 PM, Sean Daniels wrote: > If the WinNT box and your Mac are in the same subnet, you should be > able to simply go to the directory on the Windows machine you want to > share, right click, choose sharing, and create a share name for that > directory.
Ideally, the WinNT box will be VPC emulated on the Mac -- I could set up a separate win box but that would be less convenient. > Then, from the OS X Finder hit apple-K and put smb://192.168.0.1 (or > whatever the IP of the Windows machine is), How do I determine the IP Address of the win Machine? > hit OK, authenticate using > a valid user account with access to the share on the Windows box, and > bingo, you should see a select box of shares available on the PC. > Select the one you just created and it should mount in the finder. > > Just make sure when you set up the share on the PC you allow access > with the account you're going to authenticate with from the Mac. > > By the way, I do this daily with a Windows 2000 box, but have never > done it with Windows NT and Jag. I would recommend Win2K if possible > though. > This sounds exactly like what I want to do. I have VPC & win98 & winNT -- I'll buy a PC box and win2k or winXP if I need to -- rather not, though. ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
