Mac-Pc Network help

will2b2007 · #1 May 5th, 2007, 01:27 AM

Hello everyone, I hope someone can help:

I am trying to set up a small home network to share a printer. In this network I have an XP Home desktop with printer hardwired to a wireless Netgear router, an XP Laptop, and a macbook. I have the network set up and all computers are in the same workgroup. The Laptop and Desktop can communicate and share files and printers fine. The laptop and desktop can read my macbook, but I cannot get the macbook to read the others. When I go to finder>Go>connect to server and type in smb:// and the ip of the desktop I get an error mesage that says "the finder cannot complete the operation because data in smb://... could not be read or written. (Error code -36). I cannot find any information about this error code. Could someone please give me information to fix this.
Thank you very much

**Buzz** · #2 May 5th, 2007, 02:17 AM

Some things that may help with Samba networks on a Mac:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10596
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29326
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15587
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13795
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10346

The main issue is Macs aren't designed to use Samba networks easily.
I've never used any of the above products, but something there may help you.

will2b2007 · #3 May 5th, 2007, 08:08 AM

Alrighty everyone I finally got it. I dont exactly know how, but what I have now works. If anyone else has problems I can let you know the steps I took to do this and maybe you will have some luck as well

Thanks everyone