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MacbookPro can't see Windows 7 Workgroup Computer Over Wireless Network
Can't seem to find an answer to my problem elsewhere, so I must ask. I am new to Mac and there may be a simple solution that I am not aware of, but here goes.
Just bought a new MacBook Pro. Trying o use my old laptop (PC with Windows 7 Professional) as a file server for external USB hard drive using a home workgroup. Both computers use wireless network using a Netgear WirelessN access point and both using using the default workgroup name WORKGROUP.
The Mac has Windows 7 Ultimate installed on a bootcamp drive (Had to be done for work reasons - sorry). When I am in Mac OSX, the PC shares do not show up. If I try to find the PC manually by entering the IP in the Connect to server option, I get an error that the connection failed because either the server does not exist or is unavailable.
If I boot the Mac to the bootcamp (Windows) drive, I can see the network shares fine and can read and write correctly to them.
Any ideas how to make the Mac OSX work?
Just bought a new MacBook Pro. Trying o use my old laptop (PC with Windows 7 Professional) as a file server for external USB hard drive using a home workgroup. Both computers use wireless network using a Netgear WirelessN access point and both using using the default workgroup name WORKGROUP.
The Mac has Windows 7 Ultimate installed on a bootcamp drive (Had to be done for work reasons - sorry). When I am in Mac OSX, the PC shares do not show up. If I try to find the PC manually by entering the IP in the Connect to server option, I get an error that the connection failed because either the server does not exist or is unavailable.
If I boot the Mac to the bootcamp (Windows) drive, I can see the network shares fine and can read and write correctly to them.
Any ideas how to make the Mac OSX work?
strung
See if this tutorial helps: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3024.html
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Thanks Strung. Went through step by step on the tutorial link. Other than various differences between Vista and Windows 7 and between the tutorial version of Mac OS and my version of Snow Leopard, all settin gs match. I get to the connect to server and get the same error. I did find the problem here. My Mac wants to start with smb://\\ and have me type the IP after the \\. When I remove the "\\" and just do smb://xx.xx.xx.xx, it works fine. Not sure why it wanted to add the extra "\\" after the smb://, but all works now. Thanks for your quick response!