Seeng Windows 7 shares on Mac

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GPSJane

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Hi all,

I am having a problem getting all my Windows shares on my Mac. In Windows XP there were never any problems but Windows 7 does seem to have some odd settings all over the place.

I actually have one share visible and accessible from the Mac - my external hard drive. There are 2 more drives which while visible are not accessible; I get an error saying: Connection failed / You do not have permission to access the server "192...".

I have double checked permissions and they are actually the exact same permissions as the external drive, which is full access to Everyone. I have logged on correctly from the Mac using my user name.

I am not sure what else to do!
 
What happens if you create a user and password on Win7 that is the same as your Mac user/password and assign those credentials to the Win7 share ?
 
Hi GPSJane

This may not be related at all.

On the Windows 7 machines. Go to the "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings". Quick way to get there, hit the Start button, and type "advanced shar..". It should appear on the list. BTW, this method is also very handy to find files & emails etc.

There's two sets of settings, one for "Home or Work" and one for "Public" - check the up or down arrow on the right. Home or Work should be the default one in your case.

My Settings are "Turn on Network Discovery", Turn on file & printer sharing, Turn of public folder sharing, enable 40 or 56 bit encryption, turn off password protected sharing, use user accounts and passwords.

This works for me. I have no experience on a MAC, but at least my Windows XP machines see my Windows 7 machine.

There are setting for "Homegroup". I haven't used it at all, but it's meant for Windows 7 machines. Rather turn it off or ignore it.

One more thing. If the shares are set up after they have been populated, the file permission may be wrong. Right click on the relevant folders and set the file permission for "everyone". You'll have to dig a bit to find the options. Also not sure if this is possible/relevant on non Professional version of Windows 7.

Your external drive is probable FAT32 which has no permission setting. If its NTFS the permisison setting may have been disabled for it.
 
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Thanks everyone. Yes, all that advanced sharing, permissions and homegroup are necessary.

But I also had to add the user "Everyone" to the Security tab in the folder properties. What a mission!
 
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