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There are other times, of course, when you might want to do things the other way around, namely by setting up the Mac OS X system as the file server. Why? Well, if you have other Macs on your network running systems earlier than 10.2, then they will all be able to access one common file server. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Open up your System Preferences and click on the Sharing button. Check the Personal File Sharing and Windows File Sharing options.
Now you need to create an account that can be accessed by a Windows user. (You can also edit an existing account to do this.) So, in your System Preferences, click the Show All button in the top left corner, and then click on the Accounts button. (Alternately, you can select the Accounts panel from the View menu.)
Choose and existing user account, and click the Edit User button. Or click the New User button. After you fill out all of the proper information, click the button labeled "Allow user to log in from Windows." If you want the user to be able to access your entire hard drive rather than just a user folder, check the option labeled "Allow user to administer this computer." (Use this option at your own risk.)
To connect from the Windows XP side, you have a few options. The most fool-proof, I think, is to go to the desktop and right click on My Network Places. From the menu that appears, choose "Search for Computers." In the field that appears, type in the Mac's IP address followed by the account name of the admin account currently logged into Mac OS X. For example, if I'm logged in as the administrator on the Mac OS X machine as "dave," then I would enter in the address on the Windows machine as follows: \\192.123.123.123\dave. (Yes, those are back slashes instead of forward slashes.)
Once you do this, you will be presented with a dialog box asking you to enter your account name and password. This will be the account you previously set up to access the Mac OS X volume from Windows. Following this, your Mac volume will be mounted on the Windows machine as if it were just and everyday, ordinary Windows volume.
That's it. You can now fire all your IT personnel. If you have any more questions, be sure to visit me in the Creative Mac forum at http://www.wwug.com/forums/creative_mac/index.htm.
Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com.
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