Macs Speaking PeeCee (Samba In OSX Question)
Ok, so i have my g4 running osx 10.1.2 and i have my room mates gateway running windows me. i also have my friends computer accross the hallway running windows xp. i went through the home netowrking wizzard on both of them and set up a network w/ a 10baseT hub i had, the 2 pcs can see each other with no problems on the internet, however, when i go to connect to server in the finder and type smb://DIANE/YADDA to access my roommates shared folder, i get told that no file services are available at that URL. since the 2 pcs can talk with no problems, im assuming somthing is not configured correct on my machine. is there anything else in mac osx that i should configure before i can connect to the pcs?
(btw, i know the network is connected as we can connect in a tcp/ip network for games)
(btw, i know the network is connected as we can connect in a tcp/ip network for games)
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It is not enough to 'share folder' on the Wintel PCs, you also have to create a 'workgroup' on the PCs. I think you include that into the smb url as well.
Don't know. Just a vague memory recall.
btw, the workgroup is mshome
<strong>Ok, so i have my g4 running osx 10.1.2 and i have my room mates gateway running windows me. i also have my friends computer accross the hallway running windows xp. i went through the home netowrking wizzard on both of them and set up a network w/ a 10baseT hub i had, the 2 pcs can see each other with no problems on the internet, however, when i go to connect to server in the finder and type smb://DIANE/YADDA to access my roommates shared folder, i get told that no file services are available at that URL. since the 2 pcs can talk with no problems, im assuming somthing is not configured correct on my machine. is there anything else in mac osx that i should configure before i can connect to the pcs?
(btw, i know the network is connected as we can connect in a tcp/ip network for games)</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think your format is wrong try:-
smb://bob@diane/c
Bob is your name
Diane is the machine name
c is the drive (Volume)
You will be prompted for a workgroup and password. You can leave the workgroup blank you user name will appear in uppercase for some strange reason. You may or may not need a password depending on the security settings of the machine you are trying to connect to.
no, you don't need netbios install on the windows machines for it to work (i don't)
i have mine set up so that it's shared like this
smb://[name of computer you're trying to connect to]/[name of the share of the computer you're trying to connect to]/
so, something like:
smb://MasterPo/Music/
of course, i don't know how you picked your original names (yadda, etc) but with more info, maybe we can diagnose it better
Ted
btw, about the name yadda, i just quickly made a folder with a quick generic name and enabled sharing on it so i could try and get this working.
so, perhaps try:
smb://domainname_or_workgroupname;username@hostname/shared_rsrc
so, for you, it might be:
smb://mshome;[computername(one word)]/[computershare(one word)]
i'm not sure if you'll need a username or not.
i guess the workgroup defaults to workgroup (that's why i didn't need anything there)
but anyhow, try that out and let me know if it works
thanks
Ted
mount_smbfs -U Christian -l 192.168.0.3 -W tokyo //blackbeauty/wwwroot /wwwroot
I get the error message:
mount_smbfs: can't set locale ''
mount_smbfs: can't get server address `blackbeauty':
Unknown host
mount_smbfs: can't get server address: syserr = Network is down
But connecting through smbclient that comes with Samba works just fine. No need to even specify an IP or workgroup. The line:
smbclient //blackbeauty/wwwroot (password) -U Christian
Connects like a charm.
NetBios and NetBUI are enabled on the Win2K box. And all this worked yesterday.
Any takers?