Fire sharing between PC and Mac

[Guest]

I am having a problem with my network, my network has a few PC and a mac OS
10.3. we had the same work group and i was able to load files to my PC
notebook before. but begining from today, the mac and my notebook cannot
recognise nor connect to each other thru the network, i try turning of
firewalls, changing work groups and everything, still doesn't work. my mac
had Samba enabled. ANy idea what is the problem?

 

[Guest]

--> update:
My mac was able to connect to my notebook by ip address, and computer name
doesn't work, and it can't see my PC on the network

 

[LaManchaDQ]

--> update:
My mac was able to connect to my notebook by ip address, and computer name
doesn't work, and it can't see my PC on the network

It is a computer browser issue.and a possible IPv6 issue. The Mac wants to
dominate the network and doesn't share the comuter names the same way that
windows does. If IPv6 is active on the Mac I think it also distributes the
workgroup names on the IPv6 protocol which the windows computer, unless you
installed that protocol, simply does not "understand" what the mac is trying
to tell it. I don't know why the browser functions hide the PC's sometimes.
Here are some sites for you to look to for teaking the settings on your mac
to make it play better with your PC.

http://www.chicagotech.net/browser.htm#Q: How can I check my Master Browsers



http://joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/pcfilesharing.html



http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/smbdoc.html#_3._Diagnostic_Tools



http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031113060738627&query=file+sharing



Let us know if these don't help. If one of these links dumps you at a forum
or site's main page and not a specific message make sure you search for
things under "computer nrowser" and not simply file sharing.