{"id":1187,"date":"2009-05-31T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-05-31T12:14:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T11:14:28","slug":"filesharing-between-vista-and-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/filesharing-between-vista-and-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Filesharing between Vista and Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I had to access files over the LAN on OS X 10.4.3 and retrieve them to my Vista. No matter it’s year 2009, this process is never a trivial task.<\/p>\n

This post was more a reminder to my self then a real tutorial. For more in depth explanation check out this tutorial<\/a> and this one<\/a> for sharing more than public folder on OS X. Also keep in mind that I had to access files on OS X Tiger, Leopard has slightly different menu options.<\/p>\n

If you wish to access Mac share from Vista<\/h2>\n

Log into a Mac OS X system:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open System Preferences and go to the Sharing pane. Click on the “Services” and check the box next to “Windows Sharing”.<\/li>\n
  2. Click on the “Accounts…” button and check the box(es) next to the Mac OS X user account(s) you would like to enable access for from the network<\/li>\n
  3. Take note of your Mac’s IP address, which will be displayed at the bottom of the Sharing pane in System Preferences (eg. Windows users can access your computer at \\\\192.168.1.2\\seven)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On Vista computer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Click Windows key + R (or select Start \/ Run) and type in ‘regedit’<\/li>\n
    2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa<\/li>\n
    3. In the right pane, click on the “LmCompatibilityLevel” and in the Value data change the value from 3 to 1<\/li>\n
    4. Exit regedit and you should now be able to properly authenticate to your Mac OS X (or other Samba) shares in the network. If you don’t wish to edit registry manually, you can simply download and execute this reg file<\/a> who does this for you.\n<\/li>\n
    5. To access Mac share, navigate (from Explorer or Run command) to ip address and share name on Mac from Mac Step 3 (eg: \\\\192.168.1.2\\seven). When prompted, enter Mac username and password you enabled to access those shares and that’s it.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you wish to access Vista share from Mac<\/h2>\n

      On Vista system:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Go to Control Panel \/ Network and Sharing Center and setup File sharing or\/and Public folder sharing. Select users who will have access to those shares over the network and select access level<\/li>\n
      2. Open up command prompt (click on Run, enter cmd and press Enter) and enter: ipconfig (and press Enter). Look for a IPv4 Address from one of connected adapters (Wireless LAN in my case) eg. 192.168.1.3.<\/ol>\n

        On Mac OS X system:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Open up Go menu of Finder toolbar and select Connect to Server (Apple key + K)<\/li>\n
        2. Under Server Address enter IP address and share name from Vista system in following format: smb:\/\/ip_address\/share_name\/ (eg: smb:\/\/192.168.1.3\/public\/ for normal share or smb:\/\/192.168.1.3\/c$ for admin share)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          The other day I had to access files over the LAN on OS X 10.4.3 and retrieve them to my Vista. No matter it’s year 2009, this process is never a trivial task. This post was more a reminder to my self then a real tutorial. For more in depth explanation check out this tutorial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}