Difference between revisions of "How to connect to a network PC from an Apple"

 
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I made this page because I need help satisfying my file sharing needs and was hoping a tech saavy person would read this:
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# Go to the Finder.
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# Select Go -> Connect to Server... (or Command-K if you're a badass)
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So if someone has shared their awesome mp3 and movie collection on the network I used to easily be able to access it when i still had my PC by going to Run: \\nameofuser How do I do this on a Mac? From googling, I figured out that I could go to the finder and connect to server and then type smb://ipaddressofthepc/nameofuser
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# If you want to connect to \\firecat, type "smb://firecat". Click the + button if you want this address remembered.
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# Click Connect.
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but when i did that, it made me type a username and password.
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# It'll ask for a username and password. Type GUEST for the user name, and leave the password blank.

Revision as of 19:29, October 11, 2005

  1. Go to the Finder.
  2. Select Go -> Connect to Server... (or Command-K if you're a badass)
  3. If you want to connect to \\firecat, type "smb://firecat". Click the + button if you want this address remembered.
  4. Click Connect.
  5. It'll ask for a username and password. Type GUEST for the user name, and leave the password blank.
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