Question Home sharing between a PC and MAC

[captain no action]

Hey, hopefully I explain this well enough. I have a MAC and a PC that I want to access when I am on one or the other. Specifically drives and but the whole computer would be awesome. When I tried and searched you tube, I am shown how to set it up and make a file folder on the desktop and then drop and drag out of it. I have more drives on the PC for what I need to do so I am on my MAC more. I went to the PC drive and started looking at advanced sharing options and dont want to screw it up. Here is the you tube video I was following. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

View: https://youtu.be/UogQu1S0p2Y?si=PyIUrl76GONExS5B

 

[Dave8671]

This may help
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac...-and-files-from-mac-to-windows-and-vice-versa

 

[captain no action]

Thanks, but its the same as my example. Make a folder on the desktop.

 

[Ralston18]

To clarify:

On the MAC you can see files on the PC and drag the files to the MAC.

However, on the PC you are unable to see files on the MAC and drag the file to a target folder on the PC's desktop - correct?

If not, please correct as necessary and applicable.

On the Desktop are you able to click an open area and select "Show more options" from the menu that appears?

Then, via that "Show more options" menu select "New" and create a folder?

 

[captain no action]

No Ralston18. I don't have it set up so I don't have any of that.

I started to give permissions on the MAC and PC. Low and behold on my MAC I see my PC computer on the network. When I clicked it it asks to join and enter my name and password for the server blah blah blah. I keep getting rejected even though I have the correct name and password.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...e-server/744363fd-68e2-4abe-8c22-726dc5d8cf92

What I am trying to accomplish is to have unilateral access to each computer on the same server and be able to pull files from the PC from specific drive/anywhere. The you tube video has a file folder on the desktop and that is my only file sharing capabilities. I know for a fact at least when I had several PCs on my network I was able to have free reign from each one and pull and drop files without even having to do all this.

I appreciate you trying to help, thanks.

 

[palladin9479]

Ok firstly, they are both Personal Computers (PC), what you have is two desktop PC's with different Operating Systems that like to use different protocols. Windows use's Server Messaging Block (SMB) while Apple, being based on BSD, likes Network File System (NFS) or Apple's own Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). NFS and AFP aren't going to work here without you having much greater knowledge, but Common Internet File System (CIFS) is compatible with Microsoft's SMB and something that pretty much everything can understand. So we're going to use CIFS as our sharing protocol.

On the Windows PC make a new folder somewhere, don't use your desktop but something like C:\Share\MyShare. Right click it and set it up as a share, under permissions add your own account or a new account you made and grant that account full control. Afterwards right click on that folder, properties and under Security tab make sure your account or that new account has full control. This is because there are two permissions levels, first is to the CIFS share, the second is to the folder that share is using.

On the MacOS PC you should be able to access to the share from the Windows PC using the a typical link like smb://<microsoft pc name>/<share name>

https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/mac-help/mchlp3015/mac

 

[captain no action]

Thank you palladin9479. This seems just like the video where I have a file folder on my desktop and I can't access anything else but that file folder. My new issue no matter what I do is correct name and password.

I couldn't enter the correct name and password info and read a comment how this is a known bug. I replied to the post for more info but haven't heard back yet. Then my PC disappeared on my MAC network. Figures. Still working it.

 

[palladin9479]

Thank you palladin9479. This seems just like the video where I have a file folder on my desktop and I can't access anything else but that file folder. My new issue no matter what I do is correct name and password.

Not on your desktop, read the instructions and ensure permissions are set on both the folder and the share. For NT based systems the domain is part of the username, in your case that domain will be the computer name. <Computer Name>\<User Name> or <User Name>@<Computer Name>.