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Mac to PC filesharing, original item cannot be found
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proveitwasme
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Apr 8, 2007, 09:08 PM
 
I have an iBook G4 and a PC running WinXP. Up till now I've had no previous problems with accessing files on my PC via the G4, but starting a few days ago, I now get the error message 'the alias cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found'. Network is always greyed out for me so I can't attempt to re-set up the connection. I tried one fix that involved deleting Keychain entry for the server, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

And I'm a relative newbie, I can find my way around the Mac well but solutions using Terminal are probably going to be lost on me.
     
spice003
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Apr 9, 2007, 07:41 PM
 
just delete the alias, the press apple key and K, type smb:// and xp machine ip address, connect to it and make a new alias. really easy.
Macbook Pro 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM, 80GB, 128VRAM.
     
   
 
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