Networking with XP and USB external hard drives
My mac gets its internet connection from my XP box. My problem is I have a USB drive attached to my XP box full of video and music files. The drive is marked as shared in XP but when i try to view using the mac (via XP) i get an error message saying "The operation cannot be completed because the original item for USB (Z) cannot be found". THis used to work when I had the shared USB drive shared as USB (F) but since I have changed it I cant access any of my music from the usb drive through the mac.
I understand the easy solution would be to plug the USB box into the mac but I don't want to do this.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Regards
Daryl
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