still not get Windows 7 for Mac on the home network

The question asked by several users, without satisfactory answer.  This seems to be a problem without a solution.

I can't get my laptop Windows 7 see my Mac desktop on my home network wireless.  The laptop connects to the network very well and can access the Internet without problem.  But I can't connect the Windows PC to Mac to share files.  The Mac can see the PC and connect to it from the Mac side, so if I'm at the Mac I can drag files to the PC.  If I'm on the laptop, it is an island in the ocean.  Nothing can be seen anywhere on the network.  It is impossible to copy files to the Mac from the PC.

There must be a Windows 7 problem.  I have another laptop running XP and it automatically connects to the Mac.

Is this a bug of Windows 7 and this is why no one can explain how to solve this problem?  Mac forums are loaded with people having the same problem with their Windows 7 computers.

Problem solved!

PilotBob's suggestion did the trick for me. I was tearing my hair on all last night about why my Windows 7 (Ultimate) machine can access the files on my old MacBook Air for a year and not my two new OSX machines. When you try to access the new machines I kept getting an alert box saying connection failure and asks me to enter my username and password. Although they have identical accounts on all of my machines, I couldn't login to the new machines, OSX, even after you type the correct user name and password.

The problem, it turns out, was that the Macbook Air has been configured to use the same working group as the Windows 7 machine (which I had imaginative name "WORKGROUP") and the new OSX machines did not use any group of work at all. Once I did that change, Windows 7 automatically connected the new OSX machines.

My only point remaining dissatisfaction is that Windows 7 does not automatically captures the OSX machines on the subnet and the list under 'Network', as it does with my other Windows 7 machines. I have to enter the address of the OSX machine I want to access in the address bar of the file manager: i.e. "\\ComputerName" to see shared files on OSX machines. But once this is done, the OSX computers under network in file manager and remain there, and I can click on it to access all that is shared. I can live with that, even if, as John + 6154 pointed out, it seems that Microsoft could facilitate this. OSX automatically resumes all Windows machines on the subnet. So why can't Windows do the same? (My guess is that Microsoft will not be able to get away with this kind of arrogance much longer. "If things continue as they are it might soon be Microsoft touting that Windows plays nice with OSX, rather than OSX touting that it plays well with Windows.)

In any case... taking into account the situation as it is, and adaptation of all the advice above with special credit to Malkeleah, here is what I believe is a complete list of what you need to do to allow access of file under OS Windows 7 x:

On Windows 7:

  1. Configure a user account with a password
  2. Go to control panel > all items in the control panel > network and sharing Center, click on "change the advanced sharing settings" and make the following settings for any kind of network, you're on (probably home or work)
  3. Discovery of plug in the network
  4. Open the files and printers sharing
  5. Turn on the sharing section Public folder sharing
  6. Plug the password protected sharing
  7. Do not use "Homegroup" (he has a knack for spoiling your manual network settings)
  8. Make sure that your firewall allows traffic on your subnet to cross
  9. Identify the task force of your Windows machine by going to control panel > system and security > system. The name and the workgroup for your computer are displayed. You can change these if you have administrative privileges; Click on "Change settings" just to the right of the name of the computer. You will need the Working Group to set up your OSX machine.
  10. It seems you have to use Windows 7 Professional or ultimate edition to make the work of file sharing. I have not tried with Home Premium.

On OSX:

  1. Go to the Apple Menu > System Preferences
  2. Select users and groups
  3. Set up a user with the same username and password as on the Windows machine (there is a padlock at the bottom left that you may need to click to allow you to make changes - this appears for almost all settings in system preferences)
  4. You can, if you wish, set up an automatic connection as Malkeleah for Windows. Just click on "Connection Options" at the bottom of the list of users
  5. Go back to system preferences, and then select the network
  6. Click on the Advanced button
  7. Click TCP/IP and make sure that you are on the same IP subnet as the Windows machine: that is 192.168.XXX. YYY, where XXX represents the subnet identifier and YYY represents the identifier of the machine. (I believe you can access the machines on different subnets, but you need to search the full IP address rather than just the name of the computer.)
  8. Click on WINS and set the NetBios name of the computer you want and the Working Group for the same workgroup that the Windows machine.
  9. Say OK for everything, then return back in system preferences and select sharing
  10. Check the things you want to share (at least the file sharing)
  11. Highlight file sharing, click the button under file sharing options (right) and select share files and folders using SMB (Windows) and select the users for whom sharing must be enabled. (It does no harm to also click AFP (Apple File Protocol) to share with the other OSX machines.)
  12. Click done, and then add the folders that you want to share using the sign [+] and [-] buttons at the bottom of the window and users. You can specify the privileges of each user the name of the user.
  13. Return to the WINS settings and make sure that OSX has defined the name of working group. For some reason any this does not happen instantly. If it is empty, then it has not been set. I had to try and try again repeatedly before 'take '. But once there, he should stay there. You may have to restart, however.

Finally, to access your OS x from Windows machine

  1. Open a Windows Explorer window
  2. In the address bar, type \\OSXComputerName, that is to say "\\Air" or something else
  3. If all goes well, your shared folders should appear immediately, no need to enter a password, the password of Windows 7 is the same.

I hope this helps someone.

LF

Tags: Windows

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