Sharing folders with 2 macs

I have an imac and a MBP connected on a wireless network. I want to see the full contents of the files(docs, photos, etc) on each machine from the other one and vise versa?. How do I do this?

See the following:
Mac OS X- About File Sharing
Mac OS X 10.5 Help- Sharing your computer with others on your network
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger - Networks & Sharing
Also, select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "sharing."

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Thanks

Yes - the ability to share folders will be coming in a future release. Stay tuned!
thanks,
Todd

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Can anyone offer any advice.

I got it to work. Instead of using share\username I instead used share\short name and it connected. However, it is not very obvious from the account preferences panel how to see or modify the short name. I just read that you have to right-click the account name in the account preferences panel in order to see this. I'll give it a try soon.

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Yes that is basically the only workaround for this problem. By chance do you have a SSD installed in the Mini?
I had this problem on my MBP when I had a SSD installed. Problem goes away with the original drive or a Seagate XT series drive.
If you don't have a SSD installed the only other option is to Wipe the drive and reinstall and test (Make a TM backup first so you can restore if the problem continues with the clean Re-Install).
JosoSG wrote:
When I reboot my Macmini, I cant access the shared folders from any Windows machine. On the Windows machine, I'm being prompted for my password, but event re-entering my password does help to get access.
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Also, since Lion, I'm experiencing some connection interruption, especially when copying big files from my Mac to a Windows machine.

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I'm having trouble with smbnetfs. i installed it successfully, but the folder where the shares should be mounted is always empty
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Just to dig in deeper with this. I'm having a similar problem (perhaps the same) as described above.
I'm using smbnetfs to mount a folder in my home directory to be my network neighbourhood. When I open it in pcmanfm I can see the work groups, and upon opening a workgroup it'll show nothing more. But in fact, when you open the terminal and do a ls -a you'll notice there are in fact folders corresponding to your computers in that workgroup. Browsing any further works flawlessly.
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If you uncheck it, than your computer will be visible to anyone, but they will not be able to see the files. There is no option to make your computer "invisible" to anyone on a network.
The people who see your computer in Finder will just see the Shared Folder, but they will not be able to access it.
~Christoph

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I have a Windows PC. It has lots of shared folders. Suppose the name of the PC is "WinPC1". If I use a Windows laptop, I could easily see all shared folders by typing "\\WinPC1" in the address bar.
Now, I am using a Mac. I know I can add specific folders by adding the server as "smb://WinPC1/<individual folder name>", but it cannot map the root "smb://WinPC1". Suppose there are 100 shared folders, then I would have 100 mounted folders on Mac.
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G'day,
There are two issues here:
1) Browsing the shares available on a server (i.e. looking at the list of folders)
2) Connecting to a share (i.e. mounting the sharepoint).
I think what you are trying to do is 1).
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Will there be an option to share folders with single users and teams. Something like DropBox in the near future?

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Get your roomates to download iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
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Just hanged up from Apple tech support France, and this time, spoke to another friendly AND helpful support assistant named Simon.
Simon got me straight into the Finder>Go>Connect to Server
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Hit Enter key, and your pc should appear
Thank you Simon!
Also, watch out for port 80 being hugged by apps like Skype...it might interfer
AND any port being specified into your NAT configuration in your router might confused the search.
Voila!

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