OS X and network neighbourhood

[The PIT]

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this. If you want a Mac to appear in the network neighbourhood you have too edit the smb.conf too put it in the right workgroup.

[KeiFront]

That's one possibility, you can also do this via the UI (somewhere in Network Preference in the System Preferences).

I can't give you more clearly directions atm, only got a Mac with OS-X 10.3 @ work.

[The PIT]

It's someones Mac at work. No of the Mac experts could find the option under networking. They react with horror if they have to do any command line text editing. I guess it's too hard for them.

[ZokesPro]

There are screenshots of OS X at modemhelp.net. Besides that it's pretty easy to set up a anetwork in OS X, easier than in Windows, IMO.

But yeah, in the Apple menu, goto System Preferences then Network and your there.

[KeiFront]

Try this goto Applications->Utilities->Directory Access with this utility you can set the workgroup/domain name (SMB tab).

[The PIT]

Thanks we'll try this monday.

[The PIT]

Well the computers no visable but we can't log onto it with the username and password so what are we missing? Windows file sharing is on so what permissions do we need to alter.

[The PIT]

You don't need the samba server installing do you ???

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by The PIT
You don't need the samba server installing do you ???

Yes, but MacOS 10.2 and newer should have SAMBA installed by default. But maybe you should check to see if it is installed anyway, just to make sure that the Macs weren't installed with any special "light weight" settings.

[The PIT]

Sadly my collegue isn't sure how to check whats installed or not.

[Sasq]

shell % locate smbd should do it.

[The PIT]

Thanks I'll try that when my collegue comes back.

Looking under extensions theres a thingy called smbfs.kext which isn't available.

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by The PIT
Looking under extensions theres a thingy called smbfs.kext which isn't available.

That sounds more like the driver to enable MacOS to mount Windows shares, but then again it could also be an indication that the whole "Windows compatibility" part was skipped during installation.

[The PIT]

Might help if we set the samba password or does the OS X do this for you. I've asked my collegue to look for the samba password file and there isn't one. So me thinks it isn't set unless OS X does something different.

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by The PIT
Might help if we set the samba password or does the OS X do this for you. I've asked my collegue to look for the samba password file and there isn't one. So me thinks it isn't set unless OS X does something different.

I misunderstood. When you wrote "Windows is no visible" I thought you meant "not visible" instead of "now visible", hence the confusion.

Yes, if the SAMBA security is set to anything other than share, then you will probably have to create a login and password and assign it to the folders wou wish to share.