Comments on: How To Easily Share Files Between Mac & Windows Computers

By: bwithage

bwithage — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:37:15 +0000

Very helpful. I’m up and running. Thanks.

By: Arif

Arif — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:00:37 +0000

How can I share the mac files if the windows OS is installed in the sample laptop. (The scenario is I have a mac pro book and I have installed both the mac and windows OS in that)

Please help!

By: Suresh

Suresh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:38:20 +0000

I guess you forgot to mention one important step that is “Select the user account checkbox to On state” after selecting Share files and folders with SMB before clicking Done. I’m not able to login until this checkbox is selected.

Also is it possible to use Sharing Only account to access a folder from windows? (Since the user accounts shown below share files and folders with SMB contains only NON sharing accounts, it may not be possible. But is there any other solution please? )

By: Pankaj Malav

Pankaj Malav — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:06:46 +0000

This post is really helpful. Thanks.

By: Don Hamilton

Don Hamilton — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:50:59 +0000

Thanks, Jackson. I think you are the only person on Earth who understands how to do this.

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By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:14:23 +0000

Hi all, I’m sorry that I haven’t responded to the comments quicker. To those who are having problems, I suggest that you re-check to see if you are within the same network as your Windows counterparts and also, fix the access privileges.

To the rest, thank you very much for your comments. I’m glad that it helped.

By: TazH

TazH — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:59:39 +0000

Thank you Jackson Chung! You have made my life easier. (:

By: teknoxjr

teknoxjr — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:26:07 +0000

As a new Mac user this answered my questions and solved my problem.

By: akshay

akshay — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:57:39 +0000

i have a problem with this, i get an error in my pc saying that windows cannot access. what should i do now??

By: liser

liser — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:20 +0000

hey! i’ve been following the tuto and I have connected my two windows machines between them, I also can see (both of them) on my leopard imac.
But, i can’t make the mac visible to the windows machines.
i’ve followed all the steps and they aren’t capable to see the mac!!

thanks in advance!

By: Santesa2

Santesa2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:32:15 +0000

Excellent and easy way to share files, went through a few other tutorials before reaching this one and by far the best. Thanks Jackson!!!

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By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:01:59 +0000

So Brian, what did you find? Did it work?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:46:56 +0000

When i get back (out of town) to my ancient quicksilver g4 with tiger on it i will let you know if it works.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:10:14 +0000

Presumably. I don’t have Tiger to mess around with. This method I posted up bypasses the need to log in to a Mac account from the Windows PC. You could easily turn on Windows Sharing in Tiger but you’ll need to enable Windows Access on an account on your Mac running Tiger, meaning that you’ll need to log in from the Windows box. Hope that wasn’t too confusing.

By: digideth

digideth — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:06:45 +0000

So will this tutorial work in 10.4 cause it looks like u have 10.5 running in the screenshots.

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