Sharing with Windows help?

Hey Everyone.. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. My iMac is networked to a PC through a Wireless router. I have cleared the PC out to kind of hide it away and use it soley to store files on for backups etc. I have shared the root of one hard drive, a folder on the other drive, as well as the DVD drive. The mac is seeing my workgroup and is connecting, however only the DVD drive shows up as a mountable volume. I've checked and re-checked my windows file sharing, the root of the one drive is in fact shared as well as the other folder. Know why it's not seeing my hard drive shared volumes?

Perhaps the following will help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151667
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151669
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=54704
A good online resource is www.macwindows.com.

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File Sharing With Windows

Right this is annoying the **** out of me. I've enabled everything I should on my Mac to get it sharing with windows. I'm convinced I've broke my OSX, but there's clearly something I've missed which is stopping this from working that maybes someone else can see! So here we go
Gone to system preferences, sharing
-> Ticked file sharing
-> Ticked share files over SMB
-> Ticked my user
-> Added what I want to share and gave permission to everyone as read/write for public folder.
-> Gone to network preferences and setup the WINS server to the same group as my windows PC
Just got the standard apple firewall running on my mac. I've tried disabling this and letting anything through.
The problem im having is my windows laptop cant see my mac quite often. Sometimes it can, and when it can see my mac it only displays shared printers rather than any of my shared folders. The problem here is that I dont have any printers on my mac, and printer sharing is not enabled.
Any idea why this isnt working? I've disabled windows firewall/any other firewall on my windows laptop. My windows laptop can happily access the FTP and HTTP on my Mac. Just has issues file sharing.
I actually had this working a while ago for a day, then it's never worked since. I cant for the **** of it figure out why. I've gone through loads of tutorials to see if i've missed things. Some things have even told me to change a registry file in windows, which I've done to no success.
Cheers in advance!
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HT5372 Is iCloud tab not shared with Windows PCs with Mac or iOS operated devices?

Is iCloud tab not shared with Windows PCs with Mac or iOS operated devices?
I have iPad mini with iOS 8 and a PC with Windows 7 .
I'm trying to set up iCloud. and installed on both but can't see shared devices.

I think you have to use internet explorer to login to icloud.com on your windows pc to see the content.

Networking ~ File Sharing With Windows Vista

Alright, I've browsed enough of the web and I've tried a lot to try and resolve this issue, but none of it has worked at all for me. Here's my scenario about as specific as it gets:
I have a home private network consisting of two Windows Vista PCs, a HP Photosmart Printer, a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1, and an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.0.4. The network is routed through a Medialink MWN-WAPR300N router connected to a Time Warner Cable modem which goes to the Internet. My primary PC, the MacBook Pro, and the iPhone 5 all connect wirelessly; the other PC and printer connects via Ethernet. All devices connect to the Internet flawlessly, and they are all assigned a static LAN IP address through the router because I portforward to one of my PCs, and the router requires it. The network was originally configured using one of the PCs as a Private network under the default workgroup, "WORKGROUP". Everything else router-specific is automatic.
Here's the problem: My MacBook and my primary PC do not communicate over the network at all. Both the MacBook and my primary PC can file share with the other PC connected via Ethernet, and they can both print just fine. After using LAN Scan v1.02 by Nutec Apps, LLC on my iPhone however, neither my primary PC nor the MacBook Pro shows up on the list of LAN devices. But that's not all, the MacBook Pro always recognizes the other PC via Ethernet in Finder, and the MacBook Pro can be found in both PC's Network list. However, when I try to connect to it via my primary PC, it says that "[My MacBook] is not a valid host name." What?
To futher satisfy my curious mind, I set up a small Peer-to-Peer network between my primary PC and the MacBook Pro via Ethernet. Both devices instantly recognized each other and connected without any issues. I was able to transfer files at approximately 100mb/s and I was stoked. I then disconnected and tried to transfer over the network again, and there was nothing there. I have even done ping tests over the network to the MacBook Pro's LAN IP address, and it came back with no response.
I've restarted both computers numerous times, played around with file sharing settings, set appropriate sharing permissions, disabled firewalls, enabled sharing for Windows on the MacBook Pro, enabled file sharing on the Windows PC, you name it. I'm sure there is a small fix that I may have overlooked, but I cannot figure out what the problem is for the life of me. Because the operation worked via Ethernet, and it's working wireless-to-Ethernet, but not wireless-to-wireless, I have a feeling that the problem is related to one or both of the wireless configurations.
Thanks in advance for any help provided, if there is anything I missed I will be happy to proivde more details per request. This issues has been bugging me for weeks now and it's time I seeked professional help

Alright, I am still having the problem and I have the results of the ifconfig command if it will be of any help to any Apple techies out there:
ifLast login: Sun Dec 22 11:56:27 on console
Cav-Mac:~ Drew$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
          options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
          inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
          nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
          ether c4:2c:03:29:e6:f5
          nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
          media: autoselect (none)
          status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          ether 78:ca:39:af:ce:5b
          inet6 fe80::7aca:39ff:feaf:ce5b%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
          inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
          nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
          media: autoselect
          status: active
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
          lladdr 60:33:4b:ff:fe:9b:82:10
          nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
          media: autoselect <full-duplex>
          status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
          ether 0a:ca:39:af:ce:5b
          media: autoselect
          status: inactive
bridge100: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
          ether c6:2c:03:92:9b:64
          inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
          Configuration:
                    id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
                    maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
                    root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
                    ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
          member: en0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
                  ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 0 path cost 0
          media: <unknown type>
          status: inactive
Cav-Mac:~ Drew$
The section in question is where it says bridge100 because the IP address listed under that section reads 192.168.2.1, as previously suggested. However another IP address is listed above it as 192.168.1.104, which is exactly what it should be as I have it assigned via DHCP in the router. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, because this is driving me crazy.
PS: I apologize for the confusion. I made a typo in my previous post about my MacBook's LAN IP address. It should be 192.168.1.104, not 103. I can confirm that it is listed as *.104 in my router and it shows *.104 on the above ifconfig. Please ignore the *.103, thanks

Printer sharing with Windows 7 64 bit

I am trying to install an HP laserjet 1320 printer connected to a Windows XP Pro 32 bit machine. Windows 7 goes out and tries to find the approriate drivers but reports that a suiable driver could not be found. The printer installs fine when connected to the Windows 7 machine via USB port. Downloaded and unzipeed the Universal print driver HP's site says is the correct driver - no luck. Tried installing using the share name - same error message.

I found that I had issues with getting all of these to work - individually. I have an XPPro (32) pc trying to print to Win7Ultimate printer - printer is shared with all settings wide open, works great with another 7 or Vista machine, but same errors
as above for XP. I got it to work an old way, and then the "local port" way worked. I don't really know why as yet, but I am investigating.
My Solution -
1. As stated in other posts, install the printer locally on the XP machine. Make sure that it prints.
2. Connect the printer to the 7 machine, print a test, then change the file and print sharing options to "yes". I also installed the "Universal Driver" for my printer - HP1200 Laserjet.
3. Make sure that the Network type that the 7 machine sees is "Work" or "Home", not "Public". - I don't know if this really did anything or not, but I did make the change - mine thought the network was "Public".
4. Go back to the XP machine, if you get errors when you add the "Local Port" as suggested, then do this -
Warning Old Dos Trick -
- Open a Command Prompt, then type (without quotes) "net use Lpt1 \\COMPUTERNAME\PRINTERSHARE " - where "computername" is the name of the computer and sharename is the shared name of the printer
on that computer.
- you SHOULD see "command completed successfully", if not check to make sure that you have rights on the 7 machine. Now you should be able to print a test page to the printer. CAUTION - it took awhile for the changes to
take, so you may have the hourglass looking at you for a few minutes. - Once you reboot this will not work as the connection is just for that session.
To explain: this command is the dos version of what happens when you re-route output to a different destination - thus any traffic to LPT1 goes to \\computername\sharename.
5. After this worked, I then could add the "local port", as detailed earlier and had no errors.
Hope this helps someone else!

Wireless printer sharing with windows 7 and vista operating systems.

hello can anyone help me?
i have a new HP pc with windows 7 OS, and have an epson PX710W 3in1 printer.
i want to connect a laptop with vista OS to share the printer (wireless set up).
the pc will print documents ok via wireless link, but when i power up the laptop it appears to inhibit the printing function (document will not print).
i have set up file/ print sharing but there is the problem. it appears to me that sharing is only possible between pc,s etc with windows 7 OS via the homegroup set up. Has anyone encountered this problem at all, has anyone any ideas? or is it a configuration problem that i'm not aware of?

I found that I had issues with getting all of these to work - individually. I have an XPPro (32) pc trying to print to Win7Ultimate printer - printer is shared with all settings wide open, works great with another 7 or Vista machine, but same errors
as above for XP. I got it to work an old way, and then the "local port" way worked. I don't really know why as yet, but I am investigating.
My Solution -
1. As stated in other posts, install the printer locally on the XP machine. Make sure that it prints.
2. Connect the printer to the 7 machine, print a test, then change the file and print sharing options to "yes". I also installed the "Universal Driver" for my printer - HP1200 Laserjet.
3. Make sure that the Network type that the 7 machine sees is "Work" or "Home", not "Public". - I don't know if this really did anything or not, but I did make the change - mine thought the network was "Public".
4. Go back to the XP machine, if you get errors when you add the "Local Port" as suggested, then do this -
Warning Old Dos Trick -
- Open a Command Prompt, then type (without quotes) "net use Lpt1 \\COMPUTERNAME\PRINTERSHARE " - where "computername" is the name of the computer and sharename is the shared name of the printer
on that computer.
- you SHOULD see "command completed successfully", if not check to make sure that you have rights on the 7 machine. Now you should be able to print a test page to the printer. CAUTION - it took awhile for the changes to
take, so you may have the hourglass looking at you for a few minutes. - Once you reboot this will not work as the connection is just for that session.
To explain: this command is the dos version of what happens when you re-route output to a different destination - thus any traffic to LPT1 goes to \\computername\sharename.
5. After this worked, I then could add the "local port", as detailed earlier and had no errors.
Hope this helps someone else!

Printer and File Sharing with Windows is not working

I have a MacBook Pro, Vista machine, and an XP machine on my network.
The MacBook Pro is running 10.5.2.
The Windows machines can see the MacBook Pro and access files on it, but I cannot see the Windows machines in Finder - thus I can't access the printers on those machines.
If I goto 'Finder> Go> Connect to Server' and enter smb://ipadress I am able to mount the shares and access them.
But obviously this does not help me with Printer sharing.
Any help is appreciated, but FYI I have been reading many suggestions and none have worked.

Go to "System Preferences/Security/Firewall" and change settings to: "Set access to specific services and applications". "File Sharing" and "Printer sharing" were already present for me, I don't know how to get them if they are not, and I don't know what the ramifications for security are. I can now see Windows computers and printers.

I want to use iChat video and file sharing with Windows users

Nowadays, iChat is compatible with AOL/AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, Mac.com and MobileMe instant messaging services. I know that Yahoo Messenger support will be available soon in Mac OS X Lion.
I tried using AOL/AIM and Google Talk natively in iChat in order to talk with Windows users which were using Google Talk application or web chatting (Me from: Google Talk - My friends from: Google Talk, and Me from: AOL/AIM - My friends from: Google Talk), but videoconference and file sharing were not available.
I also tried Windows Live Messenger in iChat via Jabber intermediate, but it is not efficient and doesn't work for videoconference and file sharing.
So, which IM service combination I should use to chat with Windows users in order to be able to use videoconference and file sharing using such a great app like iChat?
Thanks you.

Hi,
A lapsed Trial or lapsed Paid for MobileMe account will not work in any fashion, as a Screen Name in iChat/AIM apps or as a Email. (Of course it is no longer an Valid Apple ID either).
Given that Google is a Jabber server iChat will Video (or Audio Only) Chat Jabber to Jabber.
With a Valid AIM name (AIM, MobileMe or @mac.com) then it is supposed to work to AIM on a PC
This tends to vary from person to person as to success.
From AIM version 6.5 AIM introduced a Send as Typing feature called "Real Time"
It does not work to iChat and in fact also has to be turned Off in the Buddy List at the AIM end for Video or Audio chats to work.
The AIM app also has to be allowed through the Windows Firewall as an Exception, preferably with UPnP enabled as well and UPnP enabled in their Router.
Trillian is a paid for App for PCs that provide an alternative.
Recently theri site offered 3 windows versions
The Pro version of verion 3.2 (known to work), a version 4 and a version 5 in beta. The version 3.2 used to have a free Text chat version and only the Pro version was needed to Video.
Until the site was reorganised the 3.2 version was "On Sale" at a reduced price.
It seems version 5 is now out of beta
They are still separating out a Pro version.
It is a multi-service client
There is also a Mac version although I have not tried it.
I am not sure what you mean by "Manage" your MSN Contacts.
How about using a MobileMe expired account screen name for using iChat with Windows-Google Talk users? Should I expect the same incompatibilities?
I have already addressed part of this. The fact the name will not work full stop.
However one way of reading this is that you are thing of linking AIM and Jabber (Google) Buddies in one Buddy List
Directly in iChat this cannot be done - unless you are the one with the Jabber Account and an AIM Transport set up.
You would be subject to the same Text Chat only restrictions.
It is a bit like the fact your phone line can be used for Fax, Telephone and DSL broadband. (in fact mine does TV as well)
You granny would not be able to talk to your Fax machine if that happened to answer the call.
Her Fax machine might be able to communicate with your computer if you had an active Fax app on there, and a dail-up modem active to answer.
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My wife is running Windows 7. I would like her to be able to view the Photos folder which I keep on my Mac. I am able to get my computer to show up under her network. However, I can't seem to get to a screen that requires her to login to see the folder. Right now, I have the folder set up to be viewed by "everyone." I'd like to restrict access so that she has to log in to see the folder. I've created an account for her in the accounts pane of my system preferences. However, her Windows machine never prompts to log in. We can see the public folder just fine, but photos will only show up if I share photos with "everyone." How can I configure it so that only she can see the folder?
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Thanks ... this article lays out everything that I was able to do, but something still is not working correctly. When I am sitting at the Windows machine, I can see my Macintosh. And I can open the "Public" folder. But I can't see the "Pictures" folder, even though I've turned on sharing for that folder and created an account for my wife. Windows never asks me to log in to anything or supply a password. So despite the step in the article which reads "To control access user by user, click the plus-sign button at the bottom of the Users section and either select each person from your Address Book or click the New Person button and enter a name and password there," I'm never asked to give the password on the Windows side.

Printer sharing with windows

I'm having some issues with sharing a printer through my mac mini. When I first tried, it was as easy as checking the little "Share printer" box in the system prefs. All of a sudden though things just decided to stop working. I couldn't even print on the mac itself.
I've now got back to the point where I can print fine on the mac, and I've got file sharing going with samba too. But when I try to print from notepad on my windows XP box I just get the error message "A StartDocPrinter call was not issued." If I try to print with vim I get no response at all, just nothing happens.
Something also struck me as a bit odd, and that is that now in my printers list on the mac I have "i560" (my normal printer), but then two others both named "i560-1". I also get another printer to choose from on the windows machines in the print dialogue called "Auto i560 on MAC".
this is all on tiger 10.4.3.
any help much appreciated, would love to get this working finally. the mini is great for a server, so quiet!
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thanks alot buddy. seems i just had to remove all the printers+settings and do it all over again. I wish that page had a better page rank, i was fishing through google for ages. definately a bookmark.
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Printer sharing with windows computers

I am the very happy owner of a new 17” MacBook Pro. Where has this machine been all of my life!
Unfortunately we all live in a windows world, so I have been trying to set up my MBP and my daughter’s iMac G5 on my home wireless network. I use a Linksys WRT54GX4 wireless router and have my Dell XPS 600 and two Dell dimension 9300 laptops on the system along with the macs. All the computers recognize each other. By that I mean that I can access the shared folders on each machine and transfer files (mac to PC, and PC to mac).
Here’s the problem: the printers on the system are connected to the XPS 600 and while the PC’s all recognize and can access the printers, the macs will not. Even though the workgroup shows up on the macs properly under network connections, neither mac will list the printers when I try to add them. During the Add Printer process on the macs, I can get to a screen that shows the workgroup name, and then the XPS 600 (where the printers are connected) but when I click on the XPS 600, no printers are listed. Why are the macs not seeing the printers? The printers in question are an HP DeskJet 990c (USB) and an HP LaserJet 4200 (parallel printer using a parallel to USB adapter – works very well directly).
I realize that diagnosing network problems is difficult, but any suggestions from the group will be greatly appreciated.
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File Sharing with Windows 7

Now I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but can someone help me out?
I have a Lenovo laptop from college running Windows 7. Because this laptop has to be in the school's domain for me to access the server (used for exchange email with Outlook, network drives, ect.) I cannot join a workgroup. I know how to set up the file sharing otherwise, but this little snafu is preventing me from setting it up. How do I work around this to share files over my home network with my iMac running Snow Leopard?

Jratz2k9 wrote:
Now I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but can someone help me out?
I have a Lenovo laptop from college running Windows 7. Because this laptop has to be in the school's domain for me to access the server (used for exchange email with Outlook, network drives, ect.) I cannot join a workgroup. I know how to set up the file sharing otherwise, but this little snafu is preventing me from setting it up. How do I work around this to share files over my home network with my iMac running Snow Leopard?
This forum is for 10.6 Snow Leopard.
To get it 10.6 onto a windows Domain open System Preferences->Accounts, Join button. To join a Windows workgroup open System Preferences->Network pane, Advanced button , WINS tab. Put in the Name of the Windows Workgroup name and at the bottom of the page hit the + button to add the IP of the WorkGroup server.
Now when you are the same IP subdomain IP range with your Home computers. Then to Share files open System Preferences->Sharing tab and click on the type of sharing you want to do. Just remember to add the name of the Users you want to share with by adding in the window panes.

Sharing with Windows

Hey all, I have recelty switched to mac. The problem is that in windows wheever i had to share a folder on network i used to right click, go to properties and click share and enter a sharename.
How do i share a folder on a network on mac.
I tried goig to system preferences>sharing>windows sharing. Now i asked a friend on a PC to access using the IP address provided under windows sharing. 10.10.112.15/ambarish. he did that and the system asked for a username and password. I told my friend my password. And he was able to access everything on my computer as in all the folders.
Now i want to share only one particulr folder, say a folder containing one pdf file in my documents folder, with a windows user and not my entire home folder. How do i do that. I must have been doing something wrong but can not find what is that.
Any help is appreciated.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The built-in GUI for managing file sharing doesn't give you fine-grained control over things like that. By default it assumes you're sharing user's home folders so that any user can get to their own content over the network.
It can be done, though, either by hand-tuning the server or by getting a copy of SharePoints which puts a nicer GUI on it. Not as striaghtforward as a right-click, but it does the job.

ITunes Sharing With Windows 7 Starter

I have 3 computers in my home. 2 run XP, 1 runs Windows 7 starter. All 3 have iTunes on them. I have sharing turned on for all of them. The 2 XP computers have no problem sharing a library. The 7 Starter netbook shows the library, but when I click on it to show the contents, it flashes on for a split second, then the shared library disappears from the menu. Any help would be appreciated.

Doublechecking bill ... what's the display resolution on the netbook? (In particular, is it at least 768 vertical?)
Checking because although iTunes will run on Starter, you might have some trouble changing preferences on a netbook with, say, a 600 vertical display, as per the following document:
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