it is that easy, but it's a little more involved.
Basicly, go to system preferenfces. Then from there bring your item chooser
menu up and go to sharing. Vo space on that to move to it, then vo space
again to press it.
OK, now in this dialog, vo right until you get to the table. Actually, it's
either a table or an outline, I can't recall which. I'm not in front of the
Mac right now. I'm currently on my Dell laptop writing you this. Anyway,
when there, interact with it. OK, now vo down arrow until you get to Simple
windows sharing. Now what you wanna basicly do is once there, if it says
unchecked, then release your vo keys, and hit the spacebar all by itself to
check it. Most likely though, it's already checked.
now command+W to get outta there, then you'll be back at system preferences.
ok, we're not quite done. there is still one more thing to do. Close
system prefverences with command w.
OK, now command tab over to your finder if you're not there already. now
hit command+shift+U to open the utilities folder. now go down in there to
Directory Access, and hit command+O on it, to opoen it up.
Great, ok, so now, vo right until you get to the edit text box for the work
group name. make sure that you set all your pc's to the same work group.
Otherwise you won't be able to share across them.
Now, get outta directory access once you have that set. You probably are
not gonna wanna leave any of your pc's on the work group that is set by
default, which literally is called quote, unquote, workgroup. It's kind of
a security hole if you do, and that's one a the first things hackers'll try.
OK, now go do the same on all your other macs.
Now, to connect to another mac, simply just go to your finder, then hit
command+K to connect to server. Now type the IP address of that folder and
then hit return.
now you'll be asked for the user name and pwd of the users home dir to
connect to.
leave the pwd empty if there isn't one.
boom, you're in! Also that homedir is now mounted on your desktop. It's
not a permanent mount though. When you log out it'll be ejected. If yoou
wanna make it permanent, you'll need to add it to the login startup options
in system preferences, then go to accounts.
Now to get a Windows box to see a mac drive, do the following.
Obviously, make sure in system properties found in control pannel, that you
know yur work group and system computer name. Make sure the work group
matches all other systems.
control pannel, system, go to the computer name tab, then hit the change
button.
now, go in windows explorer to the folder you wanna share, and hit the
applications key. Then up arrow to properties. Now in here, ctrl+tab over
to the sharing tab.
Check the box to share this folder on the network and give it a share name.
Then, once that is done, check the box to let others modify files and
folders if you wanna do so, otherwise they'll only have read only access.
tab to ok, hit enter, and you're done.
Now go to your Mac in the finder and do your command+K again. This time do:
smb://computername/sharefoldername
then go to the connect button.
again, put in your user name and password, or leave blank if no password.
there should be an option there to save the pwd info to your keychain if
desired.
Boom, you're in now looking at that windows share.
Make sure you don't have a firewall blocking anything on the windows
machines aside the windows firewall. Otherwise you'll have to configure it,
and I dono how to do that.
on the windows side, go to windows explorer, then the tools menu, and then
map network drive.
Now set the drive letter. In the location, put
\\nameOfMacPC\UserName'sHomeDirToSee
IE:
\\Laptop\JohnDoe
You may have to enter the user name and pwd now but you can save it, don't
worry.
now you got a permanent mount on the windows box to that home dir. OK, so
what if you wanna connect a windows box to a folder that is not in your
homedir.
OK, well, this is where symbolic links come into play.
So, basicly, from the finder, hit command+shift+U
Now in the Utilities folder, hit command o, and open up Terminal.
now vo left until you're in the text edit field.
Now type in:
sudo ln -S PathToFolderToBeShared /Users/Username/NameForLink.
For example: I have a 300GB u s b disk which is not obviously linked to
from my home dir, so thus, I can't see it on the network, so to fix that I
went into terminal. My volume is called MM.
So I did:
sudo ln -S /Volumes/MM /Users/chris/MM
then type your administrator password you use to log on to your Mac. If you
don't have one, just hit enter again a second time.
boom, it's done. Now hit command+Q to quit terminal, and command+w to close
utilities.
Now go look from your windows box. You see that link now as a folder?
Cool! Hit enter on it. Tuh Duh! Nice, huh?
I'm not gonna cover now how to get it where you could put a share symbolic
link in another user than yourself's folder, and only give them say read
access, or say no read, but only write access.
It can be done, but that gets into setting permissions with chmod from the
terminal. I can! explain it if any of yall want me to but this mail's
already long enough, so I'll end here. If you need any help though, call me
at:
704-817-8846, or e-mail me at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and I'll talk you through this.
Chris.
