We're trying to access folders shared on a Mac 10.4.11 computer, while sitting at a Windows Vista PC. The sharing on the mac has been done both with system properties and with something called "Sharepoints v3.5.4" (a 3rd party networking / permissions program)
The other MACS can see the printers and folders shared on the MAC server. The Vista computer can SEE it too, AND use it's shared printers, and also SEE the two shared folder names, from the parent folder. But when we click on the shared folders to see inside them, Vista asks for a username and password. We tried several which work on other computers -- none are working.
The Vista firewall is down. The MAC firewall is also DOWN.
Here's what's weird:
On a nearby XP computer on the same network, under "Entire Network", we see the MAC server computer as it's listed under Mac System Preferences - the local name is "Snowball-G4" / "Snowball-G4.local". (Macs browse it as "Snowball G4" but on PC's it's "Snowball-G4" with a dash not a space.) Anyway, when the XP computer likewise tries to brows the shared folders on the MAC ("Snowball-G4"), we get the same problem. BUT:
IF we type in the IP of the MAC (192.168.1.2), XP connects, FINE! We see inside the shared folders.
AND then under "entire network" we see the MAC computer listed as a new computer, separate from the "Snowball-G4", sometines as "192.168.1.2", and sometimes as "Snowball G4", without the dash.
HOWEVER -- we can't get the same thing that happened under XP to happen on the VIsta pc - when we try to browse the subfolders of "192.168.1.2", we get the same popup for username/pw, which don't work.
Any ideas?
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