If your network is all Windows or all Macintosh, sharing files back and forth is easy. But if you have a mix of Windows PCs and Macs, you'll have to go through a special log in procedure before you can share files and folders.
Logging in to a Windows PC from a Mac
Follow these steps to log in to a Windows PC from a Mac:
1. In Mac OS 10.2 or 10.3, choose Go --> Connect to Server. In OS 10.4 and later, open Finder and then click Network.
You may need to wait several seconds for the list of computers to be populated. In some cases you may also see a Windows workgroup name listed. If you see the workgroup, double-click it to open it.
2. In the Connect to Server window (OS 10.2 or 10.3), click the name of the computer to which you want to connect. In OS 10.4 and later, double-click the folder bearing the name of your Windows workgroup to browse the workgroup.
By default, newer Macs are set with the default workgroup name "Workgroup." This probably isn't the correct workgroup name for your Windows workgroup. To check the workgroup name for your Windows network, go to a Windows PC, right-click the My Computer icon, and choose Properties from the menu that appears. In the System Properties window, click the Computer Name tab to bring it to the front. The workgroup name is listed on this tab. Click OK or Cancel to close the System Properties window.
3. Double-click the computer to which you want to connect.
4. In the resulting SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication dialog box, type a username and password for an account on the Windows computer to which you are trying to connect and click OK.
If you only want to access shared items on the Windows PC, just enter any user name and leave the password field empty. Doing so gives you access to public items on the Windows PC.
5. Choose a volume that you want to mount.
Items in the list of things you can mount include shared folders, as well as folders owned by the user account you are using to log in to the Windows PC.
6. Click OK. The selected item mounts on your computer as if it were a disk drive or volume.
7. Double-click the network volume's desktop icon to browse its contents.
In Mac OS 10.4 and later, you can also access mounted volumes directly from Finder. In the Finder window, simply click the volume's icon in the upper-left corner.
8. Click and drag files to copy them between computers.
If you only want to access shared folders on the Windows PC, enter any user name in Step 4 and leave the password blank. You will still be able to log in to the Windows PC, although you will only be able to access shared folders.
Logging in to a Mac from a Windows PC
Follow these steps to log in to a Mac from a Windows PC:
1. Open My Network Places from the Windows Start menu.
2. Click View Workgroup Computers under Network Tasks on the left side of the screen to display the list of workgroup computers on the right.
Macintosh computers may have the word Samba in front of their names in the list of workgroup computers. Samba is the Mac OS X software that allows Windows and Macintosh PCs to network with each other.
3. Double-click a Macintosh computer in the list.
4. In the resulting Connect To dialog box, enter the user name and password for the Windows user account on the Mac.
5. Click OK to log in. After you are logged in, you can see a list of available files and folders on the Mac.
You can only access items that are owned by the Windows user account on the Mac. If you want to share items with other user accounts on the Mac, store them in the Public folder. Each user's Public folder in Mac OS X is shared with other users.
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