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Mounting Windows SMB Shares
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I've been bringing my mac to LAN parties with my friends, everything is perfect except getting onto their shares.
When I do Command-K and connect to their computer it always asks for a name and password, ive tried leaving it blank and it doesn't connect, whereas on windows you dont have to enter any user/pass you just connect.
Is there some special option I'm missing here? Or do I just have to get my friend to login for me on my machine?
Thanks tons in advance.
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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Originally posted by ryju:
I've been bringing my mac to LAN parties with my friends, everything is perfect except getting onto their shares.
When I do Command-K and connect to their computer it always asks for a name and password, ive tried leaving it blank and it doesn't connect, whereas on windows you dont have to enter any user/pass you just connect.
Is there some special option I'm missing here? Or do I just have to get my friend to login for me on my machine?
Thanks tons in advance.
you need access rights to get to their share. have them create a username for u & give you access.
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Join Date: May 2002
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What usually works for me: Username GUEST with a blank password.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Although crashy, the program SMB share (on versiontracker) allows you to connect in a similar way. For some reason, it just works better for me than the built-in SMB client.
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Originally posted by Gul Banana:
What usually works for me: Username GUEST with a blank password.
That's what works fo rme too. If you need write access you might need another password though.
Also, if these people have XP machines and you are going to mount more than one thing, make sure you don't mount more than one "Shared Docs" from an XP machine. Things get weird when I try and do that. I tried copying something to it once, and it ended up copying to the other computer. If you need to access multiple XP machines at the same time, try and get them to make unique folders instead of just using their Shared Docs folder.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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guest and blank works too.
otherwise their setting isn't right.
anyway. the smb thing is somewhat rather crashy
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Oh, I can't believe I didn't think of using Guest and no pass. Thanks SO much. Usually none of them have folders called Shared Docs, and they all run XP.
Thanks again.
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