Did you turn on windows sharing on the mac? - Ben Gold

Are you sure you're asking about Leopard? If so, where do you go to turn on Windows sharing? - Dave Winer

Enable SMB sharing under Sharing (options button) in System Preferences then change the workgroup in Network > Advanced (button) > WINS. Thats all I had to do to get it working for me. - Andrew Bashore

Yeah, I'm talking about leopard. I guess they changed stuff around from Tiger, but if you go to sys. prefs. and type Windows Sharing into the search it will bring up a panel with some sharing options. - Ben Gold

Dave: having a shared drive between these two is the easiest solution (samba, nfs). This only is helpful if you have an extra machine kicking around. What you are trying to do is such a pain in the ass! - Jon-Paul Bussoli

Yes, I have SMB sharing turned on. Jon-Paul -- I thought of doing that. I have a Airport Extreme router on the LAN here, it has a USB port, and I though possibly of putting a drive on that to see if it would show up on the Windows machine. It might be worth a try. - Dave Winer

Is the Windows machine Vista? http://www.simplehelp.net/2008... - Ross McKillop

Ross, sorry for not saying -- It's WIndows XP/Home. - Dave Winer

For Pete's sake, do it right and stick a dedicated Linux server in the mix running samba. This peer to peer kludge is beneath you. It's dead easy. - Ernie Oporto

Put a Linux on your iPhone and have it be the bridge! It will probably do a better job at being a brick than a phone! ROFLMAO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

This works fine for me. Not sure what I did, though. That was quite a few months a go - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

You'll need to change your SMB workgroup name from the default Workgroup to "MSHOME" or whatever, via the Directory Access utility (I believe this is all part of Directory Utility under Leopard). - David J. Pettifor

Try here Dave, http://bit.ly/2hw7dz. - David J. Pettifor

After wasting so much time trying to get Windows Networking, I usually search and download a freeware Windows FTP server and use that. I know I can get that working in 5 minutes. - Stuart Woodward

All my macs can see each other and the windows hardrive on my network but have never got the windows PC to see the others either. It's a windows problem. If you figure it out pls post the solution :). - Sally Church from fftogo

If sharing is on, you should be able to make a share like this: "\\192.168.1.11\username". In Tiger, this is actually written when you turn on sharing. Leopard maybe has seriously changed the networking interface. - randulo

May need to restart both boxes for the network to be recognized! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

NO problem here (XP <- Leopard). Just make sure that you use SMB instead of AFS on Mac when starting sharing. Then you can reach your mac via IP. Ah, and restart the mac after setting it up. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

I have simliar problems, I can see the other winpc but can't login into them with my uname/pass.. go figure - Naor Mark

Dave could it be the network cable you using? For P2P you need coaxial cable. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

It just started working. I looked for computers on my network on the Windows machine, and my Mac desktop was there. I think the rule is that you just have to wait a day or so, eventually they computers find each other. Why it takes so long is a huge mystery, but now I'm able to copy files both ways. - Dave Winer

Would installing Bonjour on the PC helped? Been a while since I last looked at it, but thought to ask. - Kevin C. Tofel

Dave the discovery is slow! Next time just restart the boxes! Or be like Fonze and kick the Mac in the Ass! LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I hear there is a way to tell your mac its in MSHOME, but what I do is just cmd...run...\\192.168.1.5 - Indio Apache from twhirl