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I am having trouble with Bonjour. I set it up on my mac's and windows machines; the mac's see each other, but I don't see any Windows computers? What am I doing wrong?
 
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MacPro 2 x 3Ghz Dual Core Nvidia 8800, 7 gigs ram Macbook pro 2011 Intel i7 triple boots Ubuntu/Win7
Using a windows computer.....he he

honestly, I dont know, how do you have it all set up? router?
 
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It's all set up. The Linksys router is hired wired to a custom built PC and Mac mini, with a wireless PC and wireless iMac upstairs. I don't see the windows computers in my boujour window. What gives?
 
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What services are you making available from the windows machines? unless the windows machines have some sort of mDNS responder (such as iTunes or something using howl) they will not show up.
 
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So I can't drag and drop files from a PC to Mac using Bonjour, as I can with a Mac to Mac transfer?
 
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but are printer services zeroconf enabled? If you are talking plain old windows printer services it is not last time I checked.

As far as drag and drop file sharing, that is samba based, correct? Either way there is no responder that I am aware of for windows for printers or shares. You can however get the rendezvous for windows install from Apple and that will allow your windows machines to access zeroconf enabled printers.
 
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Ok. So the bounjour thing I installed on Windows only lets me share printers?
 
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As far as I can tell, I am not sure though. I do not have any windows machines handy I can install it on.

EDIT: One thing to check is your firewall settings on your XP machine that you have the appopriate ports open. OS X opens them automatically but XP will not.
 
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also make sure that the folders you want shared are being shared in their properties on the PC.
 

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