In Tiger's Finder, I could connect to my windows machine (all the way across the room) by going to the Network link in the sidebar.
Alas, in Leopard, that's gone from my sidebar.
Easy solution. Two parts.
1. Setup my Network preferences to recognize my workgroup name
a) Open the Network Preference Pane
b) Click the Advanced button
c) Click the WINS tab at the tob
d) Enter workgroup name
2. Get the ip address of the windows machine
a) Open cmd window
b) Type ipconfig
3. Connect to Server in Finder
a) Click on Go
b) Click on Connect to Server
c) Enter smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in the box at the top
d) Click +
e) Click on Connect
f) If you have the windows machine share on with a user name/password
it will prompt you for it
g) It will then prompt you for which share you want to use
2 responses so far ↓
1 ~ Spaceman Spiff ~ // Dec 21, 2007 at 12:47 am
Another thing you could do if you have access to your router (like your home network) would be to lock the MAC addresses of you computers. Of course that would mean they would need to be wireless computers. To do so, you must have all of the computers on at the same time.
Go into your router’s preferences. Most routers can be accessed by typing in their internal IP address. For Linksys it is 192.168.1.1 and for D-Link it is 192.168.0.1. Then go to the wireless settings. There should be a tab for MAC filtering.
Go i there and enable it. Tell it you want to allow computers with specified MAC addresses. Then click on the MAC/IP address list and add your computers. Then you can lock the MAC addresses to internal IP addresses.
What this does is it allows you to have set IP addresses for your computers so you can ad them as favorite servers. That way you don’t have to go back and forth from one to the other just to connect.
Sure, it is a pain in the butt having to set it up at first, but it will save you valuable time later.
2 ALBIN // Jun 11, 2009 at 6:00 am
Thank you for this wonderful solution.
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