Accessing External Mac Hard Drives from Windows.

i have a mac and a Windows PC. i finally networked the two together, but i can only get to my main hard drive on the mac computer from the windows pc. i was hoping i could get to my external hard drives on my mac from my windows pc. if anyone knows how to do this i would love to know. thanks!

Have a look at Sharepoints for the Mac. It should help you a lot with what you are trying to accomplish.

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BrianJ844 wrote:
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Hazelle wrote:
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