External harddrive problem

Hey everybody!

I am running OS X Tiger. I have a 500 GB WD MyBook plugged to my Macbook. How do i access my external harddrive from a windows computer?

I have tried //IP/Volumes/MyBook

Thank you in advance!

//frolle

A Windows machine can not read data on a HFS+ formatted drive. Perhaps someone knows of a third party software that makes it possible.

While EORI is correct, I believe SAMBA lets you access partitions that you normally can't read/write to.

Have you set the drive to be shared across the network? If not, open up System Preferences and open up the Sharing settings. I haven't used Tiger in a while, but you can add the external drive through either the Windows sharing or File sharing options.

I am not able to share my external drive. I have enabled windows file sharing, but thats all..

Any ideas?

Your shared drive would have to be formatted FAT32. Or macdrive might work for your windows box.

The drive is not FAT32. It is HFS+ (i think its called). The same filesystem osx is running, so i dont see the problem?

I am running vista 64bit and macdrive doesnt support 64 bit!

hmm..

OSX uses HFS+, windows generally uses NTFS. Mac's can read but cannot write to NTFS drives. Window's will generaly totally ignore HFS+.

wytwolf said:

OSX uses HFS+, windows generally uses NTFS. Mac's can read but cannot write to NTFS drives. Window's will generaly totally ignore HFS+.

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Any ideas how to make it be seen?

Got it working. I added some code into /etc/smb.conf - and now i am up and running