Okie dokes,
I can definitely sympathise with Peter's situation, and after finally
getting it all working last night, I can put it down to these things:
1) Windows XP sharing is weird. There is a new method of enabling
sharing, so to go back to the old method (as seen in Win2k and
Win98/ME) perform the following in Windows XP:
- Open up a normal window (such as My Computer)
- Go to Tools
- Go to Folder Options
- Switch to the Views tab
- Deselect simple file sharing
(this is coming from memory, it's pretty similar)
Now when you go to the Sharing properties on a shared directory you
can allocate permissions. Either set these permissions so everyone
can have read/write access or make it so only authenticated users can
have read/write access (more secure).
2) When trying to mount the Windows shared directory on Mac OS X
(10.2), just type in smb://pcname/shared_directory in the Connect To
Server (apple-K in the finder) Enter in your domain, username, and
password. Make sure you have created the username and password on
your Windows XP box.
3) If an error message comes up (error number -5025 or something like
that) it probably means your login was rejected. If this still
happens, apply the Windows XP plain password registry hack - all this
does is remove the Microsoft proprietary encrypted password scheme
(which causes more harm than good!) and enables plaintext passwords
to be used. This registry hack (or fix as I like to call it) can be
obtained from the web, otherwise I have a copy with me.
Oh, and as a final tip - if you want to go vice versa (ie connect to
a Mac OS X (10.2) mac from a PC using SMB) you have to renew your
password on the Mac OS X box. I don't really know why this is the
case, but if you have upgraded from OS X 10.1 to OS X 10.2 and have
difficulties mounting the mac on a PC, just open up the My Accounts
panel (in System Preferences) and change your password. You can
change it back again to the original password if you want, but you
have to do this in order sharing to work.
Ahh the wonderful world of SMB.
If you have any more troubles with this just give me an email - I'd
only be too happy to help.
Regards,
Darren.
:)
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