Hi there
i posted a few days ago excited about my new (and first) mac arriving, well the mini arrived and im absolutely loving it, going back to xp im often like "why wont this just work" or "oh... good.. another crash"
anyway, my problem i see is well documented on a lot of forums and websites, but ive yet to find a solution in the past couple of hours that works for me, so i thought id come ask the people that know best.
Ok so i have my xp machine, which i want to connect to my mac, nothing odd there i hear you say, well, ive gone through the usual steps, tried to map network drive to \\192.168.0.101\grahammasters <-- my "short" name on the mac lol
and not a thing, well thats not true, i get an error message about not finding it, funny thing is if i go to view network computers i see it, so i click it and it says something about not being accessable, and the path could not be found
So where is this different from everyone else then?
well, i go to the other room, sit down, pick up my mac keyboard, click "network" and voilla, i can access the stuff from my pc no problem.
So im stumped, sorry if im just being a complete noob, but i just cant crack this.
Information that may be useful:
- both PC and mac are on the same workgroup
- windows file sharing is enabled on the mac and an account selected
- tried turning firewall off on pc in case that made a difference, but it may be my wireless routers firewall?
As far as i can see everything "should" be ok, so any light shed on this would be sweet.
Cheers in advance
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