Problem seeing my Mac from pc, so I can use it as a share for ns01
Posted by: Claus-Thoegersen on 05 March 2012
I know this is not a Mac forum, but many here use macs, so maybe others have experienced something similar.
I want to use my Mac Mini as a share for my ns01. This means I have to enable file sharing on the Mac. The machine is a Mini from midt 2009 running 10.6.8.
I have followed the guides on how to setup Windows file sharing, enabling smb, and give the correct workgroup Name, setting up folders to share and the permissions for both my regular mac user account and guest account, all users have both read and write access to the shared folders.
I can access both my Windows computers from the mac. I can ping the mac from the Windows machines, but I cannot access the Mac, it does not show up in the network list on the Windows machines. I get the usual Windows network error both when I try to connect to the Minis IP address, or using the machine Name.
I have gone over the ssettings many times over the last week, and I can find no troubleshooting guides on the web, it seems either just to work, or not at all, and for most people I suppose it works.
I have other sollutions, but my Windows machine is more noisy than the Mini, and if I can get this to work I can wait some time until I end up buying a nas.
Claus