I do what godfries do too. Usually i never care to connect to my Mac from XP. Cause XP's network neighborhood is a piece of crap.

If you really have to do so...

1. Before trying to connect to a Mac, make sure you know the IP of your Mac. Go to Application>Utilities>Network Utilities. There maybe a few network interface. Pick the one that connects to your network. If you dunno which one, try them all

2. Now go back to Stone Age XP. Search your Mac using the IP. Your Mac's name should appear very quickly if you got your IP right. Now your can just make a shortcut of your Mac and connect to it anytime. BTW your Mac will now appears in Network Neighborhood too. But dun get excited cause after restarting ur Windows, it won't be there anymore.

Not too difficult isn't it?

It is difficult! ; Compare to the way Mac connects to PC.....

1. First make sure you share a certain folder/drive in XP. Juz right click and sellect sharing. Then put a name one the shared folder.

Example I'm sharing my whole D drive. And I named it "PANDUAN D"

2. Now in Mac, Press Cmd+K; "Connect to Server" will appear

type this cifs://AHBENG@HOME/PANDUAN%20D

It means AHBENG is your username in XP

HOME is your workgroup in your XP

PANDUAN%20D is your shared drive/folder ... btw %20 means space

3. Then a dialog box will ask bout key in password & stuffs.. after that all clear


OR......................


In "connect to Server".... juz click browse and browse your workgroup n your username lor.

Any further question, head to www.mymug.org. I dun hang around at lowyat.net often.

Cheerio!


PANJANG NYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

This post has been edited by kin: Mar 6 2007, 02:45 AM