Local Area Networking with a Macintosh - Windows XP and Mac OS X Panther

[Richard Edwards]

Hi,

I have a LAN with three computers. I've just upgraded the
only PC to XP fully expecting to plug it in to the
network and see my Macintosh Shared files on the
desktop.... recently I did the same with the two Macs and
as soon as I switched on the Networking it saw the other
one.
I believe that getting a PC to network with another PC is
probably as simple. Can anyone who has setup a PC to Mac
network please give me some idea of why I can't see
anything on the PC?
The Mac's just show a Workgroup file which is
unaccessable, although there are certain files on the PC
that are shared.
Thanks
Richard Edwards

 

[moot]

I did this a lot in the old days with NT4 and the Macs
were running MacOS 7.5.3 and 7.5.5

what MacOS are you running?

if I rememeber rightly, windows normally use netbios stuff
that Mac typically don't see, but you could use a netbios
tool on the mac to see the windoze things. under the old
MacOS we used a great mac prog called Dave. Under the new
MacOS X which based on linux, try look for something
called samba as that is a linux tool that can read M$ smb
shares.

oh yeah, M$ use smb [server message blocks] and that's
what I think the old mac doesn't natively understand. NT4
server, and more recent server OSs, can actually make Mac
compatible shares so the Macs natively chat to the windows
server - it works very well.

hope that helps and gets you on the right track.

moot out ...