File sharing issue - Mac to Windows

HI folks. I can get file sharing to work fine between my mac and my windows machines but every time I want to do it I have to remote to my mac, disable file sharing then re-enable it. It works fine until the next day when I want to do it. It keeps prompting for password until I do the same thing. What's going on and how do I fix this? Thanks. Is there an app that does this easily?

you should create a user on the windows machine with the exact same credentials as the mac, or you will have to input password everytime.
then mount the SMB share on startup in your user account.
I do this and works pretty seemlessly.

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Converting file names from Mac to Windows.

I am an Apple tech at a university that uses both PCs and Macs. We have found that we run into some problems when transferring a user's data from one platform to the other.
When transferring lots of files, what do you experienced Mac techs use for safely converting file names from Mac to Windows?
From Windows to Mac?
We've tried NameCleaner and ended up with bad results.
Please let me know if there is something good out there for these conversions.
---Timothy

The problem looks like this:
1. User wants to switch from Mac to Windows.
2. We back up the data from his Mac to a server (an X-Serve RAID).
3. We log into the server from Windows.
4. We try to pull his data from the server.
During this data transfer, it quits with an error stating that it can't finish copying the data. I wish I had the exact text, but I don't. It does this repeatedly, and stops on different files from different locations.
In essence, without "cleaning" the Mac file names, data transfer to Windows cannot successfully complete. It quits on certain Mac file names. In the past, NameCleaner has worked sometimes, but now we have had some issues with NameCleaner (which don't matter in this discussion). The goal is to find a better solution than NameCleaner.

Hey guys, how can i password protect my files in external hard drive? I want to access those files both from mac and windows PC!

Hey guys, how can i password protect my files in external hard drive? I want to access those files both from mac and windows PC!

If you want a cross-platform solution that doesn't require the use of third-party software, use an external drive with hardware encryption. The device will have either a physical key or a numeric keypad. I don't have a specific recommendation.

New to Mac - File sharing issue with windows PC?

Good day
I have a win7 pc with all my movies storred on. I shared the folder on the network, and can access the folder from my windows pc and my MacMini.
The problem is that my MacMini does not pic up all the files/folders on the shared folder. I would guess it only picks up about 80% of the files/folders. When I connect to the shared folder from the windows 7 pc it picks up everything.
More info:
Win7 Home (all updates done)
3tb drive (not sure what you call it, but it was formated with NTFS guid table)
Full read Write share enabled to everyone
MacMini Latest hardware and OSX.
Shared folder shows in shared part of finder.
Already did a restart of both PC and Mac
Already did a clean-up on mac.
The mac connects via wi-fi and win pc via ethernet
Please help me on what more I can try

I've seen this a long time ago, seems SMB on the Mac was limited to the number of listings, if you Share an inner folder, does OSX show more files in that folder?
No idea if this works in 10.8, but will mention it...
SMBUp
Did you lose your shared folders with the update of Mac OS X from Snow Leopard to Lion? You can’t see your shared folders from your DVR or Medicaneter boxes hooked up to your TV? The internet tells you to install gigabytes of developer tools and use tons of command-line instructions to regain the ability to see your mac from your other devices in the house after moving to Lion? We might be able to help.
http://eduo.info/apps/smbup

Lion server file sharing issue with windows API read/write ini file (GetPrivateProfileString)

Hello,
I try to config lion server as file server for a windows application we use at work. All other computers are windows 7 or XP, lion server is the only mac. I choose lion server because it's size, quality and personal love of apple products.
10.7.2 lion server's samba file sharing works almost perfectly with all my windows machines, I can copy, delete, modify any text files or office files without any issue, but the most important windows application for my business doesn't work with samba file sharing. After some digging, I found it is because windows program can't read or write INI file stored on lion share. Windows API GetPrivateProfileString always returns empty if the INI file is store on lion share.
You can download a small application for read/write windows INI file from codeproject.com to test this problem:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/ini.aspx
I can open/edit the in file using any text editor without any problem. The only problem is with those windows APIs. ACL is turned on for my lion share and assigned "delete" rights to samba users.
I install samba3 on the same server; it works perfectly with windows API. My windows program also works. Looks like there is something wrong with lion server's sambax.
I'd prefer to use built-in samba even I have samba3 working. Built-in samba is very immature right now, but considered how young it is, I will give apple some time to make it mature.
Does anyone have same issue or knows how to fix it?
Thanks,
Michael.

All the memory is fine. The server rarely if ever goes down when there are only around 10-12 users connected. When there are 20+ users connected and working heavily it goes down often. When I say working heavily, I mean they are transferring huge files to the SAN (100GB+), sometimes 5 at a time per user, and there are a bunch of others who are reading large video files at a minimum of 220MB/sec from the SAN.
Though this worked on Snow Leopard without any issues, Lion just doesn't seem to be able to handle it. The odd thing is, on Snow Leopard there was only a single 1GB ethernet connection to a NAS system, whereas with Lion we have a much more powerful machine with a 6-port 10GB ethernet card and a 4 lane 8GB fiber card to a true SAN. You would think that the newer scenario with Lion would handle far more users with ease.
So far, very disappointing with regards to Lion's file serving performance.

Mac mini file sharing issue

This one has me stumped. Outside of my iPad and iPhone I have always used exclusively MS operating systems. I bought my Mac Mini a little while back so I am just getting to learn the differences and the ins and outs. This question could fall to either a Windows or Mac group I guess but I thought I would start here. I have my sharing setup on my Mac and my Windows 8.1 computer. My Mac does fine with getting shared access to my Windows folders. Here is the strange part. Although I can see all of the shared folders on my Mac from Windows the only one I can access is my public folder. But wait, that isn't the strangest bit. I typically use a third party windows explorer replacement called QDir when I am having to do a lot of file manipulation. Well, when I am using it, I can access all of the Mac folders just fine. This one has just stumped me.

Seems like a Permissions issue on the Mac side, not familiar with QDir, but perhaps it uses some kind of Admin permissions?
On the Mac enable Remote login in Sharing, & on the PC try logging into the Mac with the Mac's username & Mac's PW.

File sharing issues between iMac G5 20"/Mac OS 10.5.8 and iBook G3 600mhz/Mac OS 10.4.9.

Both Macs can copy files from each other using the AFP connection. However, I cannot copy files to another Mac. So when I try and copy a file from the iMac to the iBook, I get these series of messages:
1) You May Need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer on this computer to change the item names "filename".
2) The item "filename" contains one or more items you do not have permission to read. Do you want to copy the items you are allowed to read?
3) The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.
I'm not given the prompt for name and password at any stage.
When I try and copy from the iBook to the iMac, this is the only message I receive:
The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.
I'm not given the prompt for name and password at any stage.
With the iMac, I have the permissions preferences set for my startup drive and external harddrives for Read and Write for all entries. I can't do that on the iBook because it doesn't have those settings in the Sharing Preferences.
Could the fact that both Macs use the same user/account name and password? I never had this issue between my iBook and Power Mac G3 300mhz/Mac OS 10.2.8 when having the same name and password.
All help is appreciated. Thanks.
Bill Rudloff

I've done a little reading, and it has to do with under the hood stuff with the Login ID number. I found how to change it on the iBook, but I can't figure it out on the iMac. Ideally, I want them to both be 501. So how do I sent the iMac in Mac OS 10.5.8?
Bill Rudloff

File sharing issue with Leopard and Windows XP

I had no problem with file sharing (see the Windows machine on Leopard) before I reinstall the XP and update to SP3.
Now I cannot get the XP shared disk displayed on Leopard Finder. I looked through some guides and check these:
Both the two laptops are in the same workgroup called "WORKGROUP";
XP firewall disabled;
XP Guest Account enabled.
But I just cannot get the Windows icon back to the left column of my Finder. Have I missed something? Any body with any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Same problem but almost the reverse. 10.5.2 server, windows clients file browsing, opening and saving speed is great, but our 4 iMac clients (Leopard also) really, really slow to generate thumbnail views of files and open them. Happens across several shares, seems to be a problem with AFP, although now after disabling AFP on some of the shares, it is happening on SMB as well. I have read several other discussions on this forum that attempt to deal with AFP performance issues, but none provide a real solution. Now that it is also happening with the SMB protocol as well I am getting a bit concerned.
Any advice or even a link to more info would be greatly appreciated.

SMB sharing, accessing files on my mac from windows xp

Hey, I have my mac, 10.5.1, sharing a folder in my documents folder using SMB. I access it from my windows machine and some of the files are locked and cannot be accessed. How can i fix that? When i use ls -l it shows up the files but some don't have rwx on all the permissions. also there is a + or @ sign after most of them, what is that? Any one know how to make it so my xp machine can read and write files back to my mac using smb? thanks

It's hard to go further without getting into the nitty gritty of your network. Have you considered setting up a unique user as the owner of the files you need to share, and actually have the Windows users sign on to the Mac as that user? Also, only the 'share' user would manipulate the files from the Mac side.

Common URL format for sharing file paths between Mac and Windows?

Hi -
I have to integrate several Macs into a Windows environment. We need to be able to copy and paste file paths to share between all machines. Is there a common URL format that can be used between the platforms?
On Windows, I have:
\\server\share\file
On the Mac:
smb://server/share/file
Thank you for your help,
Steve

On Windows you have what is known as a "UNC".
On the Mac, you have a "URL". It starts with the protocol to use "smb" then gives the path to the item using standard conventions.
UNC is Microsoft mainly.
The only way I know for Windows to use a URL is with an application like a web browser or ftp client.
On the Mac, you can use UNCs but they must be modified as follows.
In Terminal:
smbclient \\\\servername\\sharename\\filename -U username
And enter a password if prompted.
Notice that you must double up the slashes. This is due to how UNIX shells treat the backslash.
You will connect to the share, but it will only be in Terminal.

File sharing from Mac to PC

Hopefully someone out there will be able to help me with this issue.
For the life of me, I cannot share movies stored on my iMac with any other device except my Apple TV.
I currently have most of my movie library archived in iTunes (90+ movies) that I converted to .mp4 or .mv4 using Handbrake. All of the movies are available on my AppleTV. I have three networked PCs, one ethernet, two wireless. I have enabled file sharing to all computers. I have installed iTunes on the wired PC as well as one wireless PC. I can share my iTunes music (but no video) between the iMac and PCs.
All three PCs are Windows XP SP2 machines. I can navigate to the movie folder located on the Mac on any computer. I cannot open any movie file. I can open and access shared PDFs, spreadsheets, word documents, pretty much anything I have access to EXCEPT the movies.
I CAN copy the movie from the host Mac to any PC with no issues. Then, Quicktime will play the movie. But, no matter what I try, I cannot stream the movies to any other device, except the Apple TV. (There are no movies stored on the Apple TV. I have a Time Capsule managing a wireless network that streams movies with only a few seconds delay.) I could see there being a time lag streaming a movie to a laptop with 500mb RAM and a G wireless connection, but the wired PC is connected with ethernet. It WILL allow me to copy a 2Gb movie from the iMAC to the PC in less than three minutes.
I initially only had "Read" permissions on the folder in question, but I did try "Read and Write" access to see what happened. Nada.
I cannot find a definitive answer as to sharing movies with iTunes. But, even if iTunes will only share music libraries, I still think that I should be able to stream movies by accessing the file directly. The wired PC is in my daughter's room, and I would like her to be able to stream movies from the iMac. If I navigate directly to the folder in question, one of two things happen. If I try to open a .mp4, I get "Error 50: An unknown error occured" If I try a .mv4, iTunes will open, but nothing happens. I can view the movies playlist under my shared library, but nothing happens when I attempt to open one.
Eventually, I would like to softmod a used XBOX my sister gave me to stream movies on the iMac to another TV. I even tried XBMC on the wired PC to act as a media manager since iTunes would not pull movies off the network. It will find the movies, but it will stall (I did not let it keep trying after 15 minutes of "buffering" a movie.)
I know I'm not the only one trying to share a library. Even if iTunes will not let me do it, I should be able to set something up so others on my LAN can access these files.
iMac specs:
2.4 GHz Intel, 2G RAM
OS X 10.5.5
Wired PC specs:
1.99 GHz Intel, 384mB RAM
XP SP2
XP SP2
Any suggestions? I don't have another Mac to attempt this with, but if 3 PCs have the same failure, I suspect it's either how my network is set up, file permissions on the iMac, or just a fundamental flaw in the way I'm trying to resolve this issue.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Wow! No one has any suggestions?
It has been suggested that Quicktime streaming will only work with Apple hardware. Can anyone tell me if iTunes will allow sharing video from a shared library, even if only Mac to Mac?
I'm beginning to suspect that is the case. In the meantime, I will try sharing a VIDEO_TS file using a media player on the wired PC to see what happens.
Or, if I'm good, perhaps I can get someone to bring a MacBook over one evening to try this with.
More to follow.

Strange file sharing issue - need guru!

I know how file sharing works. This isn't a basic problem.
I have a volume with a folder containing music files that I want to share to a Windows 7 PC. I turned on sharing and it worked just fine, EXCEPT that I couldn't set the permissions to read only for the sharing user. I have OTHER folders that I can set read-only. I know how permissions work. But I tried just about everything I could think of, with no luck - when mounted on the Windows machine, it was R/W.
So, searching around, I found a post talking about xattr on the directory. I have a fair amount of UNIX experience. I pulled up the terminal and sure enough, this folder had an xattr attribute from the Finder. Thinking that this might be the cause of the permissions problem - and since none of the other folders have this attribute, I decided to kill it (xattr -d).
Now when I try to share the folder, everything looks good on the Mac side, it just doesn't appear on the Windows machine. I can still see my public folder. I've also created other shared folders - and they work. EXCEPT, I can't create ANY folder on this volume which will share.
Setup details:
Mac Mini (2011) with Lion
1 internal drive
1 external USB drive with 2 partitions (Data, Music)
All volumes are Mac OS Extended, Journaled
The Music volume has a folder "Music" which I'm trying to share. (There are other folders which I don't want to share.)
I am successfully sharing folders from the internal drive and the other partition (Data) on the USB drive. As mentioned above, I created another folder on the Music volume - and that one won't share either.
At this point, I'm pretty stumped.
(and yes, I know about music streaming in itunes. I need actual file sharing in this case.)

More info...
If I check "ignore ownership" on the volume, I can share folders on the volume. However the permissions set in the sharing control panel are ignored. Any user can modify (R/W) the shared folder.
If I uncheck "ignore ownership" on the volume, and set the permissions, and "apply to enclosed items", I can no longer share the folder, regardless of the permissions defined in either the sharing control panel, or the folder's get info.
My internal (root) drive has permissions, and sharing works on that volume. I checked the other USB volume, and it looks like ownership is ignored.
Is this a known issue, that you can't share from a USB drive unless "ignore ownership" is selected?

File Sharing Office Docs With Windows PCs

I just upgraded my work computer, 24" iMac (pre-aluminum), to Leopard. At first I was thrilled to see the new file-sharing options in Leopard, as my computer has many company files shared. Before I was using a program called "Sharepoints" to share the files. That program does not work on Leopard.
Unfortunately, shortly after setting up the shared directory, I began getting complaints that people could not access the files in the shared folder. Here's what was happening:
They can get into the directory, and even open up the files (in this case it is excel files).
They can edit them, but when they save them they get the following error:
"The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please close the document and try to open it again."
But they cannot open it again.
When they try to open it again they get the following error: "Excel cannot access 'file.xls'. The document may be read-only or encrypted."
I can open and edit the document just fine on my iMac.
What I have noticed is that it appears to change some permissions of that file when they save it, but only on my username it now says "Custom" instead of "Read/Write". If I go to the parent folder, change the permissions back to what they were before, and apply changes to all enclosed items, they can open the file again and save it once (just like above).
What's the problem? We really need these files shared.

I just submitted an official bug report to Apple which I will reproduce below. I hope this helps someone somewhere.
Summary:
After upgrading (erase and install) my 24" non-aluminum iMac to Leopard, I am unable to share files with other people on the business network. The main culprit appears to be MS Office files.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Choose the folder I want to share in System Preferences > Sharing > Folders.
2) Apply the appropriate permissions to the folder: (Me) -> Read & Write; owner -> Read & Write; staff -> Read & Write; everyone -> Read & Write;
3) Turn on SMB sharing and check the appropriate accounts.
4) Attempt to access an Excel file with Office from a networked Windows PC.
Expected Results:
Sharing should be normal. Other computers should be able to access, edit, and save all files as if the shared directory were on their own computer.
Actual Results:
5) File opens fine, edits normally, but upon save it issues this error:
(Office 2002): "The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please close the document and try to open it again."
(Office 2007): "Access denied. Contact your system administrator."
6) Document will not reopen again and if you try it gives following error:
(Office 2002): "Excel cannot access 'file.xls'. The document may be read-only or encrypted."
(Office 2007): "Access denied. Contact your system administrator."
Regression:
When examining the permissions on my computer after someone else has accessed and saved it (with Office 2002), my permissions are changed to this: (Me) -> "Custom". If I change the permissions back to normal, recursively, the entire process can be repeated.
If I create a rtf file and save it to the shared folder, it appears that it does not suffer from this problem. This leads me to think that perhaps it is an Office files only issue. Somehow Office is making changes to the permissions when it saves the file (in Office 2002), or does not understand the permissions (Office 2007). The problem exists with Excel, Word, and Powerpoint files.
Notes:
Related problem -- When I create an excel file from another Windows PC and put it in the shared directory on my Mac, I am unable to edit the file from my Mac. The permissions for the file are as follows: nobody -> Read & Write; staff -> Read only; everyone -> Read only.

External HDD to be shared with Mac and Windows XP

I wish to share an external HDD via firewire/USB between an ibook G4 on OSX 10.3.9 and Windows XP. Apart from using FAT32 and having partitions for each OS just in case can anyone share any risks considerations I need to be aware of? I intend on having a generic 320Gb Seagate drive installed into an aluminium box but for some reason Lacie seem to be particularly good with Mac's and I can't ascertain why.
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Acer Windows XP

There appears to be some misunderstanding about what systems can read or write what hard drives.
OS X can read and write HPS+ and FAT32 formatted drives, and can read, but not write to NTFS drives. Windows can read and write NTFS and FAT32 drives, and cannot read nor write HPS+ drives. Fresh out of the box the only read/write file sharing is via FAT32 drives.
There are reasonable methods for expanding this capability.
(1) Windows can be given the ability to read and write HPS+ drives by installing MacDrive 6 on the Windows machine. As far as I know there is no software available which gives OS X the ability to read and write NTFS drives - - maybe it exists or is under develpment somewhere.
(2) Both OSX and Windows can read/write files that are on a networked file server regardless of the file system used by that file server. The server hides its underlying file system from clients. Just connecting a network capable HDD to a router is NOT the same thing as having a file server on the network - - the same basic file limitations still exist.

At a total loss on a file sharing issue

I have been using file sharing for years and have never had a problem. Tonight that streak has come to an end and I feel stupid!
I have built myself a PC for work. However, I want to be able to share files with my Mac on it. Here is my setup... On my Mac, I have a hard drive that I have made into 2 partitions. One partition is a FAT32 format, specifically so that I can share files with my PC. I have gone into file sharing and set it up so that drive will be shared with my PC. From my Mac, I can connect to the PC and the My Documents folder on it.
However, when I get on the PC I can not see my Mac unless I connect using the ftp://ip address format. Even then I do not see the drive I am trying to share. I see my Documents folder on my Mac, which is not what I want to share.
I have done searches on here as well as Google throughout the day and can not find anything that addresses this specific issue. Can anyone give me some things to look for? I am fried!
Randy

Never mind, as usually happens after making the post, I finally found a link to guide me with what I did wrong.

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