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Windows Sharing an External HD in OSX
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doctorb
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Dec 30, 2005, 04:34 AM
 
Hi all,

I am not sure if this was the right place to put it, but I recently purchased an external HD to back up my PC and my new PB. However, I didn't know about the limitations of NTFS (OSX can't write to it) and FAT32 can only do 4gb files (no disk images!!). I did some searching on this forum... and discovered that perhaps plugging an NTFS formated external HD into my PC and turning on Windows File Sharing might be a good way for me to write files from my Mac to the external HD while staying in NTFS format.


I am such a n00b... but can anyone tell me exactly how to do this? I turned on the "Share this folder on the network" and the "Allow network users to change my files" in Windows, but am unsure as to how I access the drive on my mac?

Thanks a bunch!
     
Reddog99
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Dec 31, 2005, 01:12 AM
 
From the Go menu in the Finder, click on Connect to Server.
Type the IP address of your pc. For instance this is what I use for mine:
smb://192.168.2.2

This should bring up a dialog of the available shared folders on your pc. If you still have trouble, then download a program called Sharepoints (for the Mac). Set that up and this should get you going.

Pat
     
doctorb  (op)
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Dec 31, 2005, 05:05 AM
 
Thanks a lot! That seemed to work great for the other shared folders that I had on my PC, but I can't seem to access the external HD... I type in the correct user and pass that I use to connect to the other shared folders, but when I try to access the external HD, i keep getting an error code -41.

Hmmmm.... I guess I'll have to keep trying. Thanks for the help!
     
   
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