Networking Issue

dage007dage007
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Could anyone let me know if this is possible. On my G5, I have a couple drives connected to it including an external scsi raid. When I want to see the raid from my G4 on the network I can usually find it and add it to the desktop. Does anyone know if I can access this drive from a pc running xp pro? I know I can add a network place from the G5, but its only the main root user account.



thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    You may need SharePoints.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    dage007dage007 Posts: 320member
    Ya I found sharepoints after i posted this, but I am trying it now just worried that in some way it might mess up all my permissions or something and I will end up with tons of files that I cant access ro somehting.



    Do you know if you can share a certain drive and access it maybe from the pc and play the mp3's from it in itunes on the pc?
  • Reply 3 of 4
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by dage007

    Ya I found sharepoints after i posted this, but I am trying it now just worried that in some way it might mess up all my permissions or something and I will end up with tons of files that I cant access ro somehting.



    I've been using SharePoints for half a year without any particular problems. The only issue haunting me is that if one user makes a file on a shared point, other users have read-only rights for that file. Anyway, either set liberal permissions manually or make all users all over the network with one and the same name. The latter sounds insane, but works.

    Quote:

    Do you know if you can share a certain drive and access it maybe from the pc and play the mp3's from it in itunes on the pc?



    You can share any drive which is directly connected to the Mac in question. Once shared on the Mac and mounted on a PC, I don't see any reasons why you can't play MP3s from it. If you can't that would be an SMB bug and as such should be filed at Apple.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    dage007dage007 Posts: 320member
    tried the program but took it off within one day. I was just worried that if I was working on the mac that somehow the permissions might get mixed up. The reason I say this is for some reason when I started up the G5 my raid had disapeared off the desktop, no program or utility could find it either. Had to shut it off and the G5 then back on and reboot, what a pain. Anyways works now so I took off the program incase that was the problem.



    I dont understand why I need to run a program when any mac connected on the network can see all the attached drives as it is, just not the pc's?



    very strange
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