Connecting a Vista Laptop and Mac OSX 10.3.9 on a home network

[charles]

I am trying to connect a windows laptop running Vista and a Mac using 10.3.9
to a wireless home network with a D-link DI-524 wireless router.

Both computers work fine and can ascess the internet. The problem is trying
to talk to each other. I need to know the configuration settings or where i
am going wrong.
I will try and provide as much relevant information as possible.

1. Both computers can "ping" each other
2. Sharing has been turned on on both
3. The Mac is visible on Windows network map
4. The Mac CAN access the PC's shared folders
5. The PC CANNOT log into the MAC

Re 5, i have created new accounts on the Mac for the pc to log into but the
window keeps telling me the username/and or password are incorrect.

Are there settings i need to change, and would the problem be on the MAC or
PC??

Would appreciate any help as about to pull hair out

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

5. The PC CANNOT log into the MAC

Make sure you activate Windows sharing on the Mac for your account
then on the PC: - create a new network drive using
\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\you where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the
Mac and "you" is the name of your shared account on the Mac. - You'll
have to enter the login and password for your Mac in the settings.
Corentin

 

[charles]

I did try that but to no avail.
In Vista i go to "Network and sharing centre" and select "view full map".
The PC, wireless router and internet globe are shown at the top of the screen.
the Mac is shown at the bottom of the screen "the following discorvered
devices cannot be placed in the map"
When i click "Click here to see all other devices" the Mac appears correctly
catergorised by location and workgroup.

On clicking on the Mac a new window ask me for username and password - i'm
assuming this is the Macs. however when these details are entered the window
reappears with the pc computername prefixed to the Mac computername
(pcname/macname).

Something is wrong somewhere but i dont know what??
Regards

Make sure you activate Windows sharing on the Mac for your account
then on the PC: - create a new network drive using
\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\you where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the
Mac and "you" is the name of your shared account on the Mac. - You'll
have to enter the login and password for your Mac in the settings.
Corentin

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

From:charles <[email protected]>Date:Tue, 29 May 2007

10:40:01 -0700Hide quoteI did try that but to no avail.

In Vista i go to "Network and sharing centre" and select "view full map".
The PC, wireless router and internet globe are shown at the top of the screen.
the Mac is shown at the bottom of the screen "the following discorvered
devices cannot be placed in the map"

Well it probably has something to do with properly joining the domain.

I never ever use the network scanning feature in Windows. I go
straight to entering the address manually. In the Windows Menu, select
Computer, then in the new window, select Map Network Drive. You can
then select a drive letter, and enter all the information I mentioned
in my previous post.
Corentin

 

[charles]

Hi

I tried it and same message appears. I'm guessing there are some settings
somewhere that I haven't changed although I cant think what, or Vista isn't
compatible with 10.3.9??

Many thanks
Charles

10:40:01 -0700Hide quoteI did try that but to no avail.


Well it probably has something to do with properly joining the domain.

I never ever use the network scanning feature in Windows. I go
straight to entering the address manually. In the Windows Menu, select
Computer, then in the new window, select Map Network Drive. You can
then select a drive letter, and enter all the information I mentioned
in my previous post.
Corentin

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hide quoteHi

I tried it and same message appears. I'm guessing there are some settings
somewhere that I haven't changed although I cant think what, or Vista isn't
compatible with 10.3.9??

I really don't see why it wouldn't be.
10.4 has better smb support than 10.3, but still. It *should* work,

Corentin

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Charles:

I had 10.3.9 (and now 10.4.9) networked to Vista here.


It should "just work". However: Which flavour of Vista? Vista Home will
not join a domain. You must use "Workgroup" networking, which means that
the "Workgroup" name specified on both must coincide, or Vista won't want to
know the other.

You must also have the user account in each password-protected. Vista home
networking is set up to reject connections from non-authenticated users.

If you have Norton Antivirus running on Vista, shut it down: the Norton
stuff is amazingly intrusive and makes everything very difficult. Use a
better product such as ... Well, almost anything EXCEPT Norton...

Try those two suggestions...

Cheers

Hi

I tried it and same message appears. I'm guessing there are some settings
somewhere that I haven't changed although I cant think what, or Vista isn't
compatible with 10.3.9??

Many thanks
Charles


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