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I've just set up a new Windows XP machine on my network. I want to share a drive from it to my Mac. However, if I double-click on the machine name in Network/[workgroup name], I get a beachball for about a minute, then:
"The alias [machine name] could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found." Options: Delete Alias, Fix Alias..., OK.
If I click Delete Alias, I get:
"The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for [machine name]" - even though I have an administrator login, and I've tried a Repair Permissions.
There is another machine also on my workgroup, running Windows 2000, and I can and do share files with it happily through SMB/CIFS by mounting the Win2K share drive on the Mac. If I do the same as above I get a popup asking me which shared drive to mount, and it all works fine. I can also mount the XP drive on the 2000 machine, with no issues, so the problem doesn't obviously lie with the XP machine.
The first time I tried mounting a drive from the XP machine on the Mac, it worked too, but it doesn't any more! I'm not sure what, if anything, changed in the meanwhile. ****ed non-deterministic computers...
I've tried disabling the software firewall on the XP box, and also the Mac's software firewall, but this makes no difference. I've also tried rebooting the XP box, and the Mac. I'm running 10.4.
Thanks for any input.
David
"The alias [machine name] could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found." Options: Delete Alias, Fix Alias..., OK.
If I click Delete Alias, I get:
"The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for [machine name]" - even though I have an administrator login, and I've tried a Repair Permissions.
There is another machine also on my workgroup, running Windows 2000, and I can and do share files with it happily through SMB/CIFS by mounting the Win2K share drive on the Mac. If I do the same as above I get a popup asking me which shared drive to mount, and it all works fine. I can also mount the XP drive on the 2000 machine, with no issues, so the problem doesn't obviously lie with the XP machine.
The first time I tried mounting a drive from the XP machine on the Mac, it worked too, but it doesn't any more! I'm not sure what, if anything, changed in the meanwhile. ****ed non-deterministic computers...
I've tried disabling the software firewall on the XP box, and also the Mac's software firewall, but this makes no difference. I've also tried rebooting the XP box, and the Mac. I'm running 10.4.
Thanks for any input.
David