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Share files with Windows

Sharing files between Windows XP and Mac OS X isn’t hard if you know what to do.

Connect to Windows share

If you’ve shared a folder on Windows XP you connect to it from the Macbook by using Go > Connect to Server in de Finder. Then type smb://yourip/sharename to connect to the share on XP

Connect to server

If the share is password protected then you’ll be asked to enter a username and password before you can connect to the share.

Create a share on the Macbook

You can also allow XP users to connect to the Macbook. Like in XP you need to enable file sharing. To do that you need to go to the System Preferences and select Sharing.

Sharing

Check the box in front of Windows Sharing.
You also need to assign an account that is used to allow access to the shared folders. The account name is what also sets the share name that XP users need to use to connect to the Macbook.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 11:35 pm and is filed under Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Share files with Windows”

  1. Bram says:
    September 5, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Vaak is het al voldoende om op machintosh HD te klikken en vervolgens aan de linkerkant in Netwerk te klikken. In 9 van de 10 netwerken vindt de mac dan al de PC en kan je (beperkt) inloggen op de PC. Andersom werkt dit echter niet zo gemakkelijk aangezien windows werkt met werkgroepen en dus alleen een werkgroep afzoekt ipv het gehele netwerk.