To enable File Sharing on your Mac, open the Sharing pane of System Preferences and select the option for File Sharing. Windows computers and Macs can then see your computer on the local network. When you connect from a Mac using OS X Mavericks or OS X Yosemite to another computer using file sharing, your Mac automatically tries to use the Service Message Block (SMB) protocol to communicate. If SMB is not available, it tries to connect using Apple File Protocol (AFP). To connect to a Mac or Windows computer that is sharing files on your local network, look under the Shared section of any Finder window. You can also access local file shares from Open and Save windows and sheets. To connect to a file server directly, use the Connect To Server feature of the Finder.

Select Go > Connect To, and enter a URL, IP address or DNS name. You can attempt to force a specific connection protocol (such as SMB or AFP) by using a valid URL. As long as the server you are connecting to allows the protocol you specify, the URL should work.

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Smb://ServerName/ShareName afp://DOMAIN;User@ServerName/ShareName. • When entering a URL, the name of the shared disk, volume, or directory you are attempting to connect to (share name) must be specified. You are not prompted for it. • You cannot type spaces as part of a share name when connecting. In place of any space in the share name, use%20. • When troubleshooting a connection issue, you can ping the IP address of the other computer using. A successful ping verifies a TCP/IP connection between the two computers.

To enable File Sharing on your Mac, open the Sharing pane of System Preferences and select the option for File Sharing. Windows computers and Macs can then see your computer on the local network. When you connect from a Mac using OS X Mavericks or OS X Yosemite to another computer using file sharing, your Mac automatically tries to use the Service Message Block (SMB) protocol to communicate.

Asked for password when printing from Mac on Windows network. It probably can't do a DNS lookup of the client server's name. Is the client server in a domain? Luck from Linux since installing the LPD printer role service on my 2008 R2 print server instead of using the Windows share. When it was using Samba it asked for authentication. Click one of the checkboxes next to a username to turn on User Account sharing and to grant Windows full access to that User's files and folders using your Mac user password (unless access was. Is the client server in a domain? If so, add that domain suffix to the suffix list in the TCP/IP settings on the server. Otherwise, just create a client alias on the server for the client or add an entry to the hosts file for it so that when it does a DNS lookup, it gets back an IP address. Makes sure the host entry or alias is the same name as the server. Alternatively, if you set your main PC login and user name to be exactly the same as your main Mac account, there may not be any permissions issues. Oh, the joys of sharing files!!! How To Share You PC’s Folders With a Mac. Sharing folders on your PC with a Mac is just as easy as in the previous examples.