I’m not sure if this will help you or not. I am brand new to the Mac world. I spent hours over the weekend trying to set up sharing of Mac folders on my Vista Home Premium pc. It took a while and I finally got to the point where you are at where I needed to enter a user name and password. I’m not sure if you should be using the Mac user name and password or the windows one as mine are the same for both machines. I’m use to seeing windows authentication at work which is usually DOMAIN\USER so I tried that and it didn’t work. After banging my head on the desk for a while trying to figure out why it wasn’t working, I decided to try something stupid. Instead of a forward slash ‘\’ I decided to use a backslash ‘/’ thinking maybe mac did things differently (they like to do that). When I clicked ok, a message popped up saying that it was invalid (which I figured it would), but when it told me the correct way of entering it, it showed me two options. DOMAIN\USER (which I knew already) and USER@DOMAIN. I gave the second option a shot and sure enough, I was able to access my Mac from the Windows machine!!

Now the problem I’m having is trying to map that harddrive on Vista, whenever I reboot it compains that a network drive couldn’t be mapped. I try to access it through the Network area, my mapped harddrive, and even \\\ and nothing works. So I have to unmap the drive and remap it everytime I restart my computer. If anyone can help me out with that, that would be great!

Can someone please write down the exact format I am supposed to put in the username and password?

What I’m doing is [Mac IP address}\[Mac user nickname] and [Mac password].

Is that right?

My comment on Feb 9th, 2009 12:12 am was to the above comment

Can not see the windows shared folder though yet, but this will do for now for casual use.

Now, I updated the Wii, downloaded all the free channels and even tried to get the DS Download service to work…..nope. I think i have a lemon of a Wii. I know how to configure networks (it’s my job FFS) and all of my other wireless devices work fine on my home router. DS Phat, 2x DS-Lite, 2x PC’s and PS3, all work except this PoS. I don’t have any games that use both the DS and Wii to confirm this, but I think I have a dud About to ring Nintendo again for them to get off their A$$ and replace the paperweight.

I got my network networked!!!

The problem I was having with login in to my Mac from Vista was a registry issue in Vista. I set up the network as follows:

PowerMac G5 running Leopard (OS X 10.5.5)
HP Elite running Vista Home Premium (x64 – 64 bit edition)
Router: Apple Extreme Wireless Base Station, with 4 ports.

Both the G5 and the HP are connected to the Router with Cat5 Cabling. I have an HP Printer that is connected wirelessly (that’s right, I have two seperate networks – a wired LAN, and a wireless printer).

I followed your instructions above for adjusting the system settings in both Vista and Leopard. I did change my Leopard user account name to JoePC\Joe in oder for the Vista machine to connect, haven’t tried to change it back, don’t really care too cause now it works. After I changed the account name, I still could not log in from Vista. I had read about registry entry adjstment in Vista on numerous other forums, and decided to try that. Here are the steps:

1. Click Windows Vista Orb

2. Go to the “Run” command on the right side, last option. In the run dialog box write REGEDIT and press enter

3. Authenticate by pressing Continue

4. On Regedit click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

5. Now Click File > Export this will backup your registry
(A good idea, but not really 100% neccesary in this case)

6. OK now click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > Lsa

7. In the right pane right click the “LmCompatibilityLevel” key and select Modify

8. Change this value from 3 to 1

9. Exit REGEDIT and now you should see your MAC in your Network

10. Double click the Mac, then enter your username as you normally would, not with the computername\username convention. Windows will do that automatically.

11. Enter your password that you use to log in to your Mac account.

12. Check the “Remember my password” option, unless you want to type it in everytime.

Makes ure that you have established the shred folders on both the Mac and Vista machines, otherwise you will only see the Public folders for these accounts.

Once that worked I set up a wireless network in the Airport, gave it a unique SSID (Network name) and enabled encryption and a network passphrase. Than I set up my printer to connect to the SSID with the passphrase, and now everyhting works just fine. This is great!!!! Thanks for all your time, and advice.

Joe Mesot.

If there are questions, do ask matbe I can give you a sensible answer.
I am sure I forgott proabely to tell you some of the actions I did because I just did so many things I have difficult to point ut the essentials.

I hope I can help someone.

Marcel

I came to the same point.
Had to connect a XP SP3, Vista SP1 to a iMac OS X 10.5.5

1) on The iMac (System preferences, Network, Ethernet advanced configuration, WINS (workgroup i filled in WORKGROUP))
2) on the both windowcomputer under the configuration section, System i filled in the same name for the workgroup (WORKGROUP)

All computer must share the same workgroup wathever the name.

The next great step forwards is to share the disks of these computers.
I opend this computer on the XP pointed to the drive C opend the properties and went to the tab share.
There I shared this drive.
From that momment this shared drive appeared in the WORKGROUP under the XP computer.

I also shared on the Vista the hardrive C and an external drive
I did the same for the printers

So you do not have only to setup on each computer the network you also have to share the printers, drives, or a series of files.

On the iMac appeared under shared the two computers (Xp and Vista)
It is th possible to connect as guest to them or as identified user.

It take some time to the Mac to do this.
I found out I first had to start the network form the Windows computer Using the explorer and then activating the network by cliking on it.

I did this with the both computers. Strange is they appeared not directly on the iMac but after some minutes suddenly they were both there.

I do not know if it does something but I turned also in the sharepane the extrenan management on and under computer options I swiyched the status indicator on so he appears in the upper workbar.

I am just that far. I hope it will all be still there tomorrow.
Hope some of you find some usefull items in what I experienced.

Marcel.

This was the last straw. When GTA IV comes out for PC I’m selling my xbox360. Console gaming will never look as good as PC.

Good luck.

-Kyle

Also, on the Mac side, I can “Connect to Server” form the Mac to Vista, mount the entire C drive of the Vista machine, but when I drag the folder with my backup data to the C drive, I get a permission denial teling me I may ned to enter an administrator username and password to complete the action. Then is tells me I do not have sufficient priviledges to complete the action.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Both machines are networked through an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station via Ethernet (no wireless).

Thanks,
Joe Mesot.

checked off seems to imply “off”

-Kyle

I liked John’s restaurant analogy, as it helps me get my point across. You may hear bad things about a restaurant, but maybe once you try it you find it isn’t that bad. That’s all I was trying to say, that people should at least try something (and as I mentioned in the article, I’m not just referring to Vista, but products in general) before they make judgments on it.

Everyone has their opinions of Vista and, as I stated in my article, I respect those opinions. While I don’t mind Vista, it’s not that I’m trying to defend it or the Mojave Experiment (which I feel is flawed in several ways); in fact, I much prefer using my Mac over my Vista PC. The main thing I was trying to get across was that before people form those opinions, they should have something to base them off of. I understand people are having problems with Vista, however, I also know of several people who have had no problems with it. Just like with a restaurant, people have different tastes, some may find that Vista whets their appetite while others are left with heartburn.

Once again, I appreciate the comment and the points it brought up, but just wanted to take the chance to reiterate what I was trying to get across in the article.

So please, stop trying to be different from all others and be true to the facts: Vista is under no flavor or circumstance a decent operating system. It’s a pain in the *ss to most users and I’d say that is user unfriendly; wouldn’t you?

When was the last time your grandma managed to install office 2007 and set up Outlook with Earthlink on her own?

Oh, since you are talking about gullible people … you are one of them. The ratings that operating systems get online (especially on their mother website) are biased. Anyone who is hosting an operating system rating system is clearly after something else other than honesty – um, I don’t know… money? An operating system is like a restaurant – people will come if it’s a good one. Leave a bad taste in one’s mouth and your restaurant closes down – slowly. Try to look at this whole thing as a marketing strategy too, if you will, because that’s what it is. And you will understand that Mojave and Microsoft mean the same thing: rip off. All they care about is money. Have you ever called Microsoft when your XP wouldn’t activate? I’d recommend doing that and then tell me it’s worth paying the price for Windows.

Susan

You guys have both got it right and everything now works perfectly – I can see Mac from Vista and Vista from Mac.

If you have a windows network (workgroup) you don’t have to use use the IP address to connect from a Mac to Vista. When you select sharing in Vista it gives you a file location to email to your colleagues – something like file://COMPUTER_NAME/users/WORKGROUP_NAME/documents. Just copy this link and paste it into the connect to server part of Finder. Change the file:// to smb:// and off you go.

This means that should the IP address of the Vista computer change you will still be able to connect to it.

I’am trying to figure our the sharing of files works on MacOS X 10.5+ — as it seems very simple to setup, but I have experienced problem. Here is my case. One Windows XP / Vista (same same) connecting to my Document folder on my Mac, via SMB File Sharing. At first no problems, but now I’m getting permission problems where Windows can’t save or change files on the share.

I have found a lot of articles discussing the problem with MacOS and the inherit permission on files.

Have any of you guys any experiences on this or hint?

Heres what I did:

1. Click Go
2. Connect to a Server….
3.Instead of afp:[IP of Vista] replace it with smb:[IP of Vista]
Ex. smb://192.168.1.101
4.Click Connect
5.Walla!!! it should work!

NOTE: Make sure you follow the steps above for “In Mac OS X” written by the author

I hope this helps!

Is there any way of my laptop being much faster when i open it up.

Ping =^.^=

Hard reset with the power button should only be done as a last resort and after doing so you should go into Disk Utility and run a repair disk permissions. If this finds any issues then run it again until it doesn’t.