Question about Sharing folders over network

Alright, i have a mac and a PC, on the same network. I have a folder on my PC thats shared, and i can access it via the network tab in finder. The network icon thingy appears on the desktop, and it acts like a folder on my mac. Is there anyway i can move this "folder" to another location? Also, when i restart my mac, i have to conncet to the same folder again via the network tab. Is there anyway to have the folder stay there, even when restart my mac?

Create an alias or a symbolic link would be the normal manner so you can access a folder/directory from another location.
Can't help on the log-in automatically but perhaps SharePoints or something will let you. Do you use Samba to connect?

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Okay more simple approach! How can you search shared folders over a network?

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Hi,
I have some questions about shared maps. Our Olite Applications has 96 tables. On these 96 tables, 54 tables are tables with DISABLED DML = UID. So, change on the client database are not uploaded to the server. Some of those tables have no where clause and some have a where clause which is the same where clause for all.
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Are they automatically shared because DISABLED DML = UID?
What would be the advantages of putting those publications items as shared maps?
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Thanks for your help.
I looked into CMP$ tables and CLID$$CS is not 0 but egal to my usersnames. I use a java program to create my items and publications.
I also found in the table C$ALL_TEMPLATE_ITEMS a COLUMN named SHARED and they are all with the value N. So I think they are not shared.
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If we want all users to have all the table data, must we use the groups you talked about?
If yes, how do i define those groups?
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I am having some problems with a couple of database files that I access with a Java program over network. Different computers running this program all need access to these files, and my question is if anyone know of a good way to make sure that only one user have access to these files at the time. There is no server software running were the files are stored, they are simply reached through file sharing. Currently I am creating a lock file indicating that someone is editing the files, however if I am unlucky 2 users create that lockfile at the same time and then both get access to the file corrupting it. Anyone experienced this and know of a nice solution to avoid it?

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files that I access with a Java program over network.
Different computers running this program all need
access to these files, and my question is if anyone
know of a good way to make sure that only one user
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Hi, I have a question about downloading apps to my iPhone.
I ordered two iPhone 3g's - one for my wife and one for me, and I've discovered that when I download an app (even free ones) on my iPhone and then later sync it to iTunes, my wife cannot put it on her phone. However if I download it on iTunes on my computer and later sync it to my phone, then my wife is able to sync it to her phone as well. It's no big deal when they are free because she can just go get it if she wants it. I haven't purchased any apps yet, but is there a way to be able to give my wife apps that I purchase on my iPhone? Or do I need to purchase all of my [pay] apps and songs on iTunes on my computer to ensure we both have access? Or do I have it all wrong completely LOL?? This rights management stuff is confusing.
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Few basic questions about sharing and other stuff..

Hi there!
First of all I know where are "101" pages, but they are not giving detail information.
1.I know there are some folders where I can put files, web-sites and other in order to enable sharing.
What do I have to do to enable other users (from internet to)
- view my webpage when they enter my IP address in browser
- to access files which I want them to be able to acces (with user and password required)? I know there is sth like sharing, and windows sharing, but I give access to my all user folder, do I have to create new accounts on my mac?
2. It's kind of small problem, but can I run apps in finder using only keyboard (enter causes rename action)
3. Why doesn't safari keep addresses I used in addres field after few days?
The most important question is 1.
Will be gratefull for help.
Thanks
Adam Mscisz

1. Start Personal Web Sharing from the Sharing pane of System Preferences; if you have a router between your computer and the Internet, ports 80 and 443 need to be forwarded to your computer. You can set this up from the router's configuration page, which is accessible by finding the router address in the Network pane of System Preferences and putting it into a web browser. See this article for instructions on how to password protect your shared files.
2. You can use the Command and O keyboard shortcut to open the selected item in the Finder.
3. The default setting in Safari is to keep the history for 7 days. You can use the method posted by ptejad in this article to extend the time Safari remembers the history for. The method at the top of the linked page won't work in Tiger.
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Unable to access shared files over network after period of time.

First off, I don't think that this issue is related to our router, but I have been searching for a fix and can not find one. We have a WRT54GS. Now, on to our issue:
At my work, we have a small network with computers sharing files between the others. I have attached a network diagram to help explain this better.
Our Win7 machine is our main computer that shares an external hard drive with much information that the other computers need to access. What we have noticed is either after a sleep, or even a period of time of say, 2 hours, those files are no longer able to be accessed. The Win7 machine is still sharing them, but the WinXP machines are unable to access them anymore and my Mac can see the computer is unable to connect to the folders. I have gone and attempted to get some help over at Microsofts site but that was a fail. Here is the link to the forum post there. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7network/thread/f0a2e8d6-f75a-41d7-a280-c6f3adbffa...
A member there gave me this:
The Network connection is probably not resuming after sleep.
First try this, http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/power_save_win7.jpg
It is in the Network Connection Properties under the Network card configuration.
If it already checked this way, or does not work after checking, the Network card has to be taken out of the computer's Power Saving loop, and stay on all the time.
Otherwise, Updating the Card with the latest OEM drivers (downloaded from the computer's support site) might help too.
On a rare occasions, some cards might be "Quirky" in this regards and need to be replaced.
--I would like to add that this DOESN'T ONLY happen after sleep, it also happens after a time of being used.
I attempted those and no luck. This problem is still occurring and the only way we can fix it is by restarting the Win7 machine. But even if it is being used, we have no idea when those files are unable to be accessed.
*I will add that the Win7 machine is still able to access the other computers when this problem occurs if that helps.
**The Win7 machine is a Dell T3500 running Windows 7 64bit. I can provide specific hardware if needed. The drivers are all up to date as of yesterday.
***So upon looking in the Windows XP machine, both of the folders from the Win7 machine disappear once this problem occurs in the My Network Places folder. And one folder is on the internal drive, one is on external. The computers are in this situation now where I am unable to access them. The Win7 machine can read and write from the other computers, but the other computers can even see the Win7 Machine.
****All the connections are wired and are not using the wireless.
Thanks for any help that anyone may have for me!
Steve
Network Map > http://scubasblog.com/network.jpg
Dell Support Forum with same issue I posted >> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-internet-wireless/f/3324/p/19337620/19716797.asp...

It sounds like there is incompatibility issue with XP and Win7. To isolate this, do you have another Win7 machine? Try to add it to the network and check if the shared drives are accessible after sleep. If you don't have another computer, try virtual machine and create a Win7 system.
Update your LAN card driver from the manufacturer's site. Don't use the driver from windows update.
Lastly, does this happen to your XP machines? Like, one of the XP machine sharing a folder and falls asleep. When it wakes up, does Win7 machine can still access the shared folder?

Questions about shared music

Hi everyone i just recently learned about how in itunes you can share your music and look at music on other itunes in your home. My question is what good is it? The only thing that i can see that you can do is play the song or show from that other computer, but you can not import it into the other itunes. Am i correct about this? Is there a way to import a song from a different mac's itunes in my home into my itunes? thanks in advance

The reason they do it is so you are not illegally allowing digital transfers of your music library. Authorizing and sharing are two different things. When you share your library, ANYBODY who can see your computer on a network who is running iTunes can then see your library. For example, say you live in an apartment building and someone is running an open wireless network to everyone in the building can hop on if they want and you are sharing your iTunes library. Everyone in the building, assuming they run iTunes, can pull up your library and listen to your music. If Apple made it so you could also import music off of shared libraries, you essentially would be running a mini-Napster in your apartment building. Neighborhoods with houses close to each other, college dorms, office buildings, etc. are all places were a LOT of people could potentially be able to access your shared library.
So the shared library is very useful/fun if you are in a place where a lot of people are on the same network and you can sample new and different stuff (think of it like having a lot of private custom radio stations available to you). If Apple had allowed free importing and copying of library files, then they would run up against the lawyers of the music industry. So they don't block that stuff just to be difficult to their users. They do it to keep their products legal and free of legal attacks.
Patrick

Can't log on to shared mac over network.

Hi-
I have a MacBook Air (mid 2012) and a Mac mini (Mid 2010) both running OS X 10.9.5, both on the same airport network. Both have the same user name and password. I can't log onto the Mac mini from the MacBook Air, but I can log onto the MacBook Air from the Mac mini. Can anyone suggest a solution?
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Robin

Carolynpyrenees,
so when you rebooted from Single User mode, it didn’t show the Welcome video again? It went straight to the login screen, as it was behaving previously?
If it didn’t ask you for a password in either Step 1 or Step 2 above, then you don’t have FileVault activated. Here’s another possibility to try in Lion:
Boot into Single User mode again.
Enter the following commands, one per line:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist
/bin/ls /Users
/usr/bin/dscl . passwd /Users/username new_password
/sbin/reboot
The ls command will list all of the “home” folders for users on your computer, along with a Shared folder which isn’t associated with any user. If the only folder that that ls command shows is the Shared folder, then something has caused your original user to be deleted; skip the dscl command and just give the reboot command, skipping Steps 3 and 4.
Presuming that your original username is shown by the ls command, the dscl command will replace the original password for username with whichever new_password you choose. You might get a message from the dscl command about a file or directory not being found — that message can be ignored.
After rebooting, see if you can login normally as the username with the new_password.
If only the Shared folder was shown by the ls command in Step 2, then let me know in your reply and I’ll provide the commands that would be needed to create a new user in Single User mode.

Sharing Camera over Network Connection

Is there any way to share a camera over a network connection?

I've no idea ..so I've just tried (..but I'm no network guru..)
I plugged a TRV900E miniDV camcorder into the G5, and connected to that, via 'Airport' with a G4 PowerBook.
I could reach my iMovie projects, but couldn't see a camera connected when accessing iMovie, or my iMovie files, on the G5 from the G4. This is unsurprising because - as Karsten says - the G4 would need to get access to the FireWire bus (and camera ID) of the G5.
Now I may not have chosen the correct network connections or protocols: File Sharing obviously allows only files to be shared, not a distant FireWire bus; Windows Sharing is just for reaching particular folders; Personal Wen Sharing is to use the distant machine as a web server; Remote Login is just for logging in (..rather than sharing facilities..) onto a remote machine; I haven't bought Apple Remote Desktop; Remote Apple Events doesn't do it, either.
[..Incidentally, when playing material from the remote G5 on the local G4, the Timeline and Playhead and Audio Waveforms ran along the bottom of the screen as normal (..they comprise very little data..) but the video images themselves hardly moved: the 'Airport' connection is too slow to pass the video from one Mac to another ..so I doubt that live video would be importable without glitches ..but I haven't tried a direct Ethernet connection: why don't you?..]
It may be possible to relay the necessary commands to the remote computer to tell it to feed video to the local computer, but you're probably better off asking in the Networking Discussions, and I think it'd be such a long slog trying to get any worthwhile video feed that it might not be worth your time spent pursuing it. But try connecting via iChat AV.. (..I just tried that, and ended up in the Saturday 'Lounge' chat, but just via text. Gotta go now to watch the fireworks with my Beloved..)

Sharing library over network / iTunes won't launch

I recently purchased a MacBook Pro. It's great. My itunes library is stored on a firewire drive which is connected to a Powerbook elsewhere on my network. I would like to load up the iTunes library from that machine rather than store it on my MacBook for space reasons.
First question is: What's the best way to do that?
I had it working by making a link (using ln in the terminal) from ~/Music/iTunes to the remote volume (/Volumes/Disk/iTunes) and that worked great. However I just accidentally launched iTunes without having that disk mounted. It presented an error and went away.
Now with the disk mounted, I can run iTunes but the main window never appears, and it is always "not responding" in the force quit window. (It does however mount any connected iPods which seems odd.) I've removed the link to the remote drive, deleted all traces of iTunes, and reinstalled, but nothing's changed.
Any advice?

Endquote,
This may sound simple, but have you tried to delete the .plist file associated with iTunes?
What's interesting, if I've found the right file, is that its not a standard .plist file. Apple calls it "iTunes Music Library.xml" and its in the active iTunes folder. This file seems to contain data about your library and I'm not sure if iTunes will rebuild it so back the file up before you delete it. Simply renaming it should suffice.
Please post back and let the community know if this worked. I only have one system right now, but you may consider for multiple systems to keep the Library local to the mac and use iBackUp to keep things in sync. This way you have multiple copies in case something should go south on one of the disks your music collection is on.

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Hello,
I have been trying setup a private server on my home network. I have a Netgear WNDR 3800 and have been trying to hook up my 2TB external drive to the router.
I have been trying to decide how I want to format the drive, and how many partitions I should use.
The reason I have a 2TB drive is because I needed a work space to create a image of a corrupt 500GB drive. The 500GB drive had my entire digital life on it, and it was almost lost. I dont want to encounter the same issue with a 2TB drive because at that point I feel like any issues would make it difficult for me to recover the data due to work space size issues. This is why I am thinking about using several partitions, but I am not sure what issues this might present.
As far as format goes; the router says it supports read/write with FAT 16/32, NTFS, EXT 2/3, and I know it works with HFS. Here are the things that I am trying to do with the drive. (in order of importance)
Use it as a Time Machine backup location for 1 possible more MBP's
As a media sever to stream downloaded movies and music to A/V reciever (Pioneer VSX-822) and possibly other devices on the network
Act as a temporary storage location to swap files between devices or operating systems
If possible not keep media on my computer and stream it from the network drive when I am home
And, thats all I can think of right now. If there is something else useful I am missing that would need special attention in setting up a network drive let me know.
So, I have had no problems getting the drive to connect and show up on the network when I use HFS. I have also been able to get multiple partitions to show up; been able to back up to different partitions; including time machine on one partition.
So here is where I am running into problems; the router bios allows you to enable a media sever. I believe the router tries to do something with DLNA. DLNA I believe allows for a similar functions to airplay and cloud for basically all compatible non apple products. I dont care if I use DLNA, or Airplay. I just want to be able to access my music library over the network without having to have my computer open, or my iphone on me..ect.
So I was wondering if anyone could help me out, or if there are any articles I should look at that I might have missed while I have been researching.
Edit: I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, I figured the best people to ask about filesystem compatability and ease of use was going to be the System software section

Hello,
I have been trying setup a private server on my home network. I have a Netgear WNDR 3800 and have been trying to hook up my 2TB external drive to the router.
I have been trying to decide how I want to format the drive, and how many partitions I should use.
The reason I have a 2TB drive is because I needed a work space to create a image of a corrupt 500GB drive. The 500GB drive had my entire digital life on it, and it was almost lost. I dont want to encounter the same issue with a 2TB drive because at that point I feel like any issues would make it difficult for me to recover the data due to work space size issues. This is why I am thinking about using several partitions, but I am not sure what issues this might present.
As far as format goes; the router says it supports read/write with FAT 16/32, NTFS, EXT 2/3, and I know it works with HFS. Here are the things that I am trying to do with the drive. (in order of importance)
Use it as a Time Machine backup location for 1 possible more MBP's
As a media sever to stream downloaded movies and music to A/V reciever (Pioneer VSX-822) and possibly other devices on the network
Act as a temporary storage location to swap files between devices or operating systems
If possible not keep media on my computer and stream it from the network drive when I am home
And, thats all I can think of right now. If there is something else useful I am missing that would need special attention in setting up a network drive let me know.
So, I have had no problems getting the drive to connect and show up on the network when I use HFS. I have also been able to get multiple partitions to show up; been able to back up to different partitions; including time machine on one partition.
So here is where I am running into problems; the router bios allows you to enable a media sever. I believe the router tries to do something with DLNA. DLNA I believe allows for a similar functions to airplay and cloud for basically all compatible non apple products. I dont care if I use DLNA, or Airplay. I just want to be able to access my music library over the network without having to have my computer open, or my iphone on me..ect.
So I was wondering if anyone could help me out, or if there are any articles I should look at that I might have missed while I have been researching.
Edit: I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, I figured the best people to ask about filesystem compatability and ease of use was going to be the System software section

Sharing Files Over Network and computers not showing up in sidebar

I am trying to figure out how to share files over the network. Now when I click onto the computer in my shared items, I do not get access to the home folder that I used to see. Instead, I am getting a folder image with the user name below it, but it says Sharepoint. However, when I click on the folder I get another folder that says dropbox with a down arrow. However, when I click on that it says it cannot be opened because I do not have privileges.
What happened to being able to being able to get access to the home folder from the users on the computer that you are trying to retrieve files from.
Are there settings I need to adjust to allow me to get access to the files on the other computer.
The other computer is an iMac G5.
My next issue is that my wife's iBook G4 doesn't even show up in the shared items in the sidebar.
Again, are there settings on this computer that have to be adjusted.
Thanks in advance.
Russell
Message was edited by: Russell Massey

Hi Henry, and a warm welcome to the forums!
While you may get help or a solution here, It's quite acceptable to start a new topic of your own, certainly feel free to start a new topic to attract more helpers to your particular situation, here's a link if as is often the case, it's hard to find out where to do it...
http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=752
It asks me to loggin I dont remember ever setting a login and password for it.
You need to add a User to the PC, or try with the PC's username & PC's Password.
My Main Problem is that my PC can see my Macbook...
On the Mac, did you enable Windows Sharing in System Preferences>Sharing>Services ?
I want to be able to use my printer that is hooked up to my Windows 7 PC with my Macbook
That has to be set first on the PC.

Beginner imageIO question (pulling up image over network vs local)

Greets,
I am new to java but not too new to programming. I've googled the heck out of this question and checked the java 2D api and haven't had much luck yet. Take a look and let me know what you think:
I would like to pull up an image file and display it in a jLabel, it works fine if i am pulling up a local file as such:
BufferedImage img = null;
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javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
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        at mypkg.MainForm.load(MainForm.java:143)
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        at mypkg.MainForm$1.run(MainForm.java:111)
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        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
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        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)Can anyone point me in the right direction or give me a code snippet? Much appreciated.

Paul,
All definately valid points. I was able to get it to work if i mounted the smb share to my local filesystem but essentially i am trying to make the application portable so i dont have to mount a drive on the target machine (or create a windows drive map, etc). Although read(URL input) isnt exactly what i was looking for, it works good enough and gets the same end result. i just have to copy the image folder and serv it up via apache instead of samba.
Thanx for your input.

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