Networking With Windows 7

Hello Everybody,
I have a new MacBook Pro Running Mac OS X 10.6.2 and cannot see any of my windows computers on the network, I can use the connect to server option but it is annoying to have to keep using that method.
Thanks for all of your help!
Message was edited by: MacTAG

Then see this article: Setting up to print to a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB and these two: Mac OS X- Cannot locate a shared Windows printer and Mac OS X- How to manually add a Windows shared printer.

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You can cut and paste the question you posted here and ask about networking with Windows servers. You will get more and better responses from more mac experts.
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iFelix...
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3020.html
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/windowsxp.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301397
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Hello leetle. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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Colin,
I have three servers, 01 and 02 and an ESX server. Two run plain vanilla Win2008 Server, the last one runs ESX/VMWare and Win2008 Server. They are physically miles apart but connected over a VPN. All local machines are either cable connected with Gb Netgear unmanaged or HP managed switches and the routers at both sides are Draytek Vigor 2820 Vn ADSL2+ modems or they are wirelessly connected over 801.11n.
Some local machines are part of a domain, others are not. Whenever one starts a machine, they are automatically logged in, using a vbs script, and the networked drives are automatically connected. Some of these drives are local, others are over the VPN connection.
This gives me the following drives on my video machine:
but gives me the same networked drives on all other machines.
One thing to note, drive K, named 'harm' contains My Documents. This is automatically synchronized with my notebook, so I can access all of My Documents when I work off-line and they are automatically synchronized when I get back on-line on the network. The same applies to my wifes My Documents and my daughter's and my son's files, all using active directory.
Furthermore all networked drives are backed-up daily over the VPN to a NAS. To add to that, my daughter in Switzerland can connect to the servers here over a VPN so she can access our files here.
The only thing you do not yet have is a dedicated server running Win Server 2008 and possibly Exchange Server 2010. That would make your life a bit easier. For example, I only have Office on my notebook, but sometimes need to check my mail on my video machine. Using Exchange Server and OWA (Outlook Web Access) I can easily consult my mail on my video machine, send, reply or forward without having Outlook installed.
Check your PM for a graphical representation of my network.
Sharing with two PC's on the same switch seems like the most down-to-earth approach that will do what you need initially. Forgive me for not remembering all the gory details, but this network here has been in operation for over 5 years now and is a bit beyond what you want to achieve now. Just set sharing and it should work.
If you have difficulties, let me know and I will ask my son (MCITP, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, MCDP, etc.) what your best approach is.

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