Sharing across network with Vista

iTunes on my new computer with Vista can see iTunes library on older XP machine on my family network, but no "arrow" appears next to library name, and when I select the shared library, it just disappears. I'm sure I missed something. Anyone got any insight?
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I had the same problem, installed Bonjour on the windows computer and was able to print right away... no reboot required using the generic driver for a canon mp470 printer on the mac pro.
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How to setup peer to peer network with Vista machine.

Hello,
I just got my very first Apple computer last week and I'd like to copy some files from my Dell PC with Vista Premium installed. I don't have a wireless network setup yet (hopefully soon), but I'd like to copy some files from my PC to my Mini. I was wondering if it were possible to network the two systems using just an ethernet cable between the two.
Might someone know how to set this up or refer me to a document that explains all the steps needed to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff

Apple have a page that talks you through doing this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304721
Probably a good place to start.

Laserjet 1012 on network with Vista 64 bit laptop

I am currently trying to connect to a Laserjet 1012 that is set up on our home network with a laptop running 64 bit Vista. I have tried to just rght click and drag the printer from the networked computer it is directly connected to and then try the install option. This brings up a dialog box stating that it cannot find the correct inf file or drivers to install the printer. I have tried downloading and extracting the Vista 64 bit drivers from the HP support site but I can not find the inf files needed to complete the install. Had been running an XP laptop with the printer installed the same way and am currently using another laptop with 32 bit version of Vista that was installed the same way with no problems. I have tried several different things to get this printer installed but still can't get it up and running.
Any help will be appreciated.

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Sharing across network

I have several computers on my home network, some mac and some pc. Can I share info and connect to other computers on the network? Or, just the ones that are mac?
Also, when I'm at work, can I access my home network to get files off my iMac? How is this done?
Thank you,
Gary
San Francisco

Hi GaryZ-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards
You may do all of the above.
These links should be helpful:
Networking with a Windows PC
HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

Sharing FAT-32 External HDD across network with a PC?

I have an External Driver that is formated as a FAT-32. I have it connected to my Mac. Would it be possible to share this driver across the network (not a wireless network) so that my PC can see the drive?

Found a reply in another post

How do I "find" a shared hard drive with Vista?

I have the newest Airport Extreme set up in my home with an external HD attached to it via USB. The Macs in my network (both wired and wireless) can "see" the Extreme and thus access the contents of the HD attached to it.
However, my wife's wireless PC running Vista needs to access the HD as well. How does one "find" it? When she goes to Network and "map network," as well as "find all devices on network," the Extreme does not come up. What else needs to be done to get access?

According to www.apple.com/airportextreme/specs.html, to access the drive you need "... Windows Vista (SP1); Bonjour for Windows (included on AirPort Extreme CD)".

Home sharing across networks

Is there any way to enable Home Sharing with a computer on an external network? I have a mac at work that I'd love to be able to synchronize with my home computer. It's already authorized. Do I need to setup port forwarding on my router? Will it even work?

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819

Secondary drive sharing across network between 10.3.9 and 10.4.6 OS's

4 machines, A,B,C,D.
"A"&"B" OSX 10.3.9
"C"&"D" OSX 10.4.6
"A" has a secondary ATA (bay B) interal drive and several firewires
ATA manufactuer SEAGATE ST3250823AS
FIREWIRES from lacie and smartdisk
"B" sees all drives mounted on machine "A" and can R/W
Machines "C" and "D" can only see the primary ATA drive from machine "A"
Apple support suggested checking for updated 10.4.6 firmware on non-apple supplied hard-drives (secondary ATA and firewires listed on apple store). Done. Firmware was up to date. It appears that there is a cross OS bug with sharing secondary drives.
Our options at this time appear to be:
1) Upgrade A and B to OS 10.4.6
We have adapated custom unix based software to 10.3.9 and functionality in 10.4.6 is unknown. Since the unix package is sensitive, woudl rather not upgrade the older systems.
2) Downgrade C and D to OS 10.3.9
Can this even be done?
3) Get them talking without OS changes
This would be ideal.
Your thoughts and support are much appreciated.
Thank you
Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hello djacouma,
How are your G5s networked? Give us a detailed description of your network...
How are A's drives shared? (NFS, AFP, FTP etc)?
1) Upgrade A and B to OS 10.4.6
We have adapated custom unix based software to 10.3.9 and functionality in 10.4.6 is unknown. Since the unix package is sensitive, woudl rather not upgrade the older systems.
No way, since you run custom unix software, upgrading to 10.46 hoping that it may work is unacceptable
Did you really get such an answer from Apple?
(Hopefully) We'll find a solution to share your drives...
Macs running 9.x, Macs running 10.4.x, SGI workstations running Irix 6.5.x

Home Networking with Vista

I just purchased a backup drive Clickfree Wireless automatic backup - see http://www.clickfree.com/products_c3.php#
I want to leave it plugged into my Mac, and have it back up my Mac and laptops (I have an iMac and 2 Laptops... one running Vista, one running Windows7). To do that I need to network the computers. They are all connected to the same wireless router. I can get the laptops to see each other, but can't consistently get them to see the iMac. A couple times they did, but mostly it doesn't show up. Once I was able to access the iMac from the Windows7, but the Vista machine tells me the username is wrong.
I found thishttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht1549 and followed those instructions. One thing: after going to the Advanced Network Settings and setting up the WINS workgroup (I add the workgroup name in the dropdown list), then Apply... if I later go back into that screen, it's not showing up. It's like I never entered it.
I think I'm rambling... can someone tell me... in just the simplest terms possible... what I need to do on the iMac to get my Windows machines to see it... or if I need to do something to my Windows machines?
And don't say I should have bought MacBook... I know
I'm running 10.5.8
Thanks

Instead of browsing, have you tried entering the specific IP and share address directly into the field in the Map Network Drive window. This the what is shown in the Mac's System Preferences Sharing pane at the bottom, where it says, "Windows users can access your computer at..."
You want to enter it in this format.
\\192.168.1.101\Ken
Not sure if that will make a difference.

Can't print across network with LaserJet 1220

I'm trying to print across our home wireless network from my Windows 7 64-bit computer to a LaserJet 1220 connected to a Windows XP 32-bit computer. My computer sees the printer in the network, but when I try to install it on my computer, it searches the web for a driver but can't find one. There must be a way to get this to work. Any ideas?

How about this?
Windows 7 and HP All in One Printers
Disclosure: I'm just guessing, and have not yet tried Windows 7.

Print issue over network with Vista

Hello,
hope this is the right place for this message. I have a dymo 400 turbo installed and working properly on my imac. I want to be able to print to it from my wives vista home laptop. In Vista I goto add it and it does see it on the network and show the imac it installs it but will not print says its unable to connect.
Any suggestions? I m assuming this a is Vista issue not seeing the imac correctly? I have a HP Officejet connected to my router directly and that prints on both machines fine.
Thanks,
MARK

Can't be 100% sure - I don't have one of those.
Mac print queues expect to receive postscript, so try changing the driver on Vista to a postscript one, like Apple Color Laserwriter.

Sharing XP printer with Vista computer

Hi, I recently ran into this problem at home, and I thought I'd share it here so hopefully it might help someone in the future.
I recently bought a T61, and was setting it up to work in my home network. All was well untill I tried to connect to my printer. My printer is connected to another computer, running Windows XP Pro. Everytime I tried connecting, it would tell me my computer was low on memory, please close some programs and try again. Well I have 3GB of memory, so that isn't an issue. It turns out, that since the printer is connected to an XP computer, it will try installing the xp driver on my computer, and my computer will reject it (I run Vista Ultimate). These are the steps to fix this problem.
1. Download/Install the latest Vista drivers for your printer
2. go to add new printer
3. Select Local Printer (not network printer)
4. Select create new port
5. For the name of the port, put the path of the printer (eg. \\DELLHOME\LEXMARK X215)
6. When it asks to look for the drivers, choose have disks, then point to the location where you installed the drivers
7. Voila! you are now set up to print over your network.
T61 15.4" T9300 (2.5GHz 6MB L2) Windows 7 Professional x64 4GB Memory, NVidia Quadro NVS 140M

I had the same problem, installed Bonjour on the windows computer and was able to print right away... no reboot required using the generic driver for a canon mp470 printer on the mac pro.
Thanks!

Join a wireless network with Vista

I am having a problem to make the AE to work with my existing network. I have a wireless network that I set up ("ad hoc") to acces the internet with my laptop - the modem is installe in the desktop.
I am trynig to make the AE to enter in this existing wireless network but I can't! When I select "join a wireless network" I expect to have in the "Network Name" box my netnork name but it doesn't appear! Then I type the name and the password of my network, I update the AE then.... nothing! Dead!
The wireless network I have set keeps working but the AE doesn't enter in the network.
Am I doing anything wrong? Any tip will be useful!
Thanks in advance.
Rgds
/Nairo

First of all thanks for the posting!
Yes, when the AE is "blank" I can see it in both computers (strong signal), the desktop and the laptop. And it is constant green. Then I enter the Utility software and again everything is fine. It allows me to make all the configuration then when I update... boing!!! It dies. My "ad hoc" network continues working but the AE is dead. No signal! Then I go again there, make a reset, and the AE is back to live.
I guees there is something wrong with the way I want to use it, I mean, I want the AE to enter my existing network (WEP-128 bits). I give all the directions (SSID and Password) correctly but once it is updated with the info it doens't respond anymore.
I tried it many times and nothing. Now I am trying to create another network (WAP) and try again to configure the AE.
Thanks for your help.
Rgds
/Nairo
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Does the Conficker worm affect Macs sharing a network with a PC?

I asked this on Yahoo! Answers, but I am not sure. I want to receive an answer from a reliable Macintosh user.
My sister and I share the same network to access the internet, but she is a PC owner while I run a Mac. Will I be affected by this worm?

jaguar pirate wrote:
I asked this on Yahoo! Answers, but I am not sure. I want to receive an answer from a reliable Macintosh user.
My sister and I share the same network to access the internet, but she is a PC owner while I run a Mac. Will I be affected by this worm?
no. it's windows worm running a windows code. it can do absolutely nothing to your mac.

Sharing files on a VISTA machine with my iMac via network domain.

As I always say, forgive me. I am new to this Mac world. I love it, but being an admin for a network of 300 PCs and trying to get this iMac to join the gang isn't as simple as I had hoped.
FWIW this iMac has admitmac running on it.
I want to share all the users files on her Vista machine that she wants on her new iMac I am configuring, and I want to be able to get on her iMac and pull them over to it via the network... looking for the easiest, no-nonsense way to do that... though with Vista involved, I know that may be a problem.
Oh, Kappy rocks.

Hi James
Any of the following articles help?
http://www.ifelix.net/tech/3022.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518?
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