Re: Connecting Computers
- From: "TKnTexas" <tkntexas55@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Aug 2006 20:26:50 -0700
David thanks for the response. I have no clue why it stopped working
in the first place. But last night it started working. No
explanations.
Initially when I received the 160g drive (I got it from a friend when
he got a 250g) it was formatted Mac Extended. Hooked up to the
sawtooth it showed up in the network along with the main harddrive.
Fat32 is the only option for a drive that needs to share read/write
permissions. I dual boot my Sony computer into Linux sometimes. I
hope future versions of Mac OSX will show USB or Firewire drives in the
network panel regardless of the formatting they use. Is there a place
for me to make that suggestion?
TK
David Empson wrote:
TKnTexas <tkntexas55@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a G4 tower (sawtooth), an iBook, and an XP-Pro computer. I have
an HP1000 printer and a WD USB external hard drive (formatted as
Fat32). If I put the WD drive on the G4 it doesn't show when
connecting to it from the XP or the iBook. When it was formatted as
Mac Extended format it did show up for the iBook but XP couldn't see
it.
That's due to limitations of Mac OS X's built-in File Sharing.
It is presumably not able to share a FAT32 volume via AFP ("Personal
File Sharing" for other Mac clients), only Mac OS Standard or Extended
volumes.
The Windows file sharing support is much more limited: it only gives
access to the user's home folder. You can't see other volumes at all.
If the drive was reformatted using Mac OS Extended format, you can use
the donationware SharePoints utility to manually share it for access by
Windows clients. I believe this would solve your problem, and leave the
drive hosted on a Mac (less useful for quick file transfer by moving the
hard drive, however).
If the drive is connected to the XP and marked sharable it is viewable
to all computers. So I have gone this route. From the G4 tower I
added the printer and connected to the drive. I opened files, copied
files to and from it. It all worked as it should. This was last
night. Today I tried to do the same from my iBook.
The iBook doesn't see the XP. I checked, it is not asleep. The G4
tower can still see it and print to it. I can see the G4 tower from
the iBook, but not the XP. This did work a couple months ago. Both
Macs are on the same level of OS 10.4.7.
Could be a problem with the iBook's windows file sharing client setup.
Have a look in "/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.app" and make
sure that SMB/CIFS is enabled, and is configured for the same workgroup
as the other two computers (it should default to "Workgroup").
--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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