OS X & Windows file sharing

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 14:05

Okay so I am having some trouble setting this up how I would like.

I can view folders shared on my PC from my Mac but I cant write data to them. I want to transfer a large file over the network to the PC but I cant seem to get it working where I have rights to write to any of theses folders.

Help?

Willis · 3 Feb 2008 at 14:48

gumbald · 3 Feb 2008 at 14:49

XP or Vista? Have you ticked the "users can write to this folder" option?

And to above, yes you can. I share various folders to keep one copy of my project work on my main machine and access them fully using my MB. The OS handles the conversion of data, client OS has no concept of filesystems on the server.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:01

Its Vista Ulitmate x64

gumbald · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:06

Right click on the folder you want to share, then add your username as an "Owner". When you try to access the share on OS X, make sure you use the same username as you log onto Vista with and you should get full access to the folder.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:09

Okay when im sending files across they start to copy and a few have successfully. one file that is 3.5gig in size sends about 3.1 gig across and then I get a copy pop up error saying

The operation cannont be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.
Also these files appear on windows but nothing shows in the window on the os x system. files just disapear but on the windows machine they are there.

I am set up as the owner and I have logged in as it on the os x machine.

gumbald · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:12

Try doing it with some smaller files before you batch copy with huge files in there. Just do a couple of text files and see what happens.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:14

it sends smaller files.

I have got the items showing up in leopard now. I had to fiddle with a setting in the windows folder share.
I had to enter a share name. The folders called "sharing" and the share name is "general" I can not connect to "general" and the files show up. Just waiting to see if it will send this large file now

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:19

Nope still wont send.

gumbald · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:20

It's just one large file?

What about sharing the folder that it's in on the Mac and accessing that from the Windows machine?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:24

how do you share folders on a mac?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:39

might of done it.. give me 10 mins

still wont copy over!

J1234 · 3 Feb 2008 at 15:55

Is the PC HDD FAT32 formatted?

Because OS X wont write files over 4GB to FAT32.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 3 Feb 2008 at 16:04

J1234 · 3 Feb 2008 at 16:25

OS X can't write to NTFS.

But I don't know if it makes a difference over a network though, as you said you can copy small files over.

gumbald · 3 Feb 2008 at 16:29

Doesn't make a difference over a network, the OS at the other end handles the conversion of the network packets to files to be written on whatever FS it is.

J1234 · 4 Feb 2008 at 19:23

Thought just as well, ignore my above posts.