OS X :: How To Share External HDD With Mac And PC
Dec 26, 2009
I have an Iomega 500GB external hard drive that I used exclusively with my MacBook. Then my Mac's hard drive crashed, and what I have on my external HD is all I have left. I also have a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop, and I would like to be able to get the Mac files off the HD, as well as add files from the Dell onto my external HD. However, as you know, you must usually format the HD to make it usable for PC once it is set up for use with a Mac.
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Jan 20, 2007
When I enable sharing on Mac OS X, the only thing I can share is my user directory! I want to be able to share an external USB drive that is connected to my Mac over the network. I have OS X 10.4.
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Apr 8, 2009
Ok, was excited to get a refurb Mini today to setup as a Media Center using Boxee. I've got a 1TB WD External Drive used to store all my media, and I figured sharing that drive between the Mini and my Blackbook would be a cinch. WAY not the case. Both computers are running 10.5, fully updated.
These are the steps that I thought it would involve:
- Connecting the Drive to the Mini
- Turning on File Sharing
- Adding the specific folders on the Drive I want shared, and setting permissions accordingly
(Don't know if its relevant (or a stupid idea regardless), but I have the same user name and password setup on both of these machines as the admin)
- Connecting to the Mini in Finder on the Blackbook..............
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Jun 14, 2012
We have a Mac Mini which is our media player. I have all the actual media on an external USB drive. The previous drive was failing, so I've now copied everything over to the new drive. The new drive has the same name as the old drive: Media Drive. As far as the Mac Mini itself goes, all is well.
However, we also access the media drive through filesharing from our other Macs. Now with the new drive, it doesn't appear in filesharing. So I went into filesharing. I removed the old Media Drive (it said it couldn't locate it, because of course it's gone). Then I added the new Media Drive. Still it doesn't appear in filesharing.
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 4, 2009
I am trying to use Mac Mini as my home server (as well as media server).I tried to share the folder and all, but I cannot see the external drives that are attached to Mac Mini.
If I remote in as Admin, I can see the main HDD, but nothing else. As Guest, I don't see anything.From Windows PCs, Mac Mini doesn't even appear on the network list.
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Aug 3, 2009
I've got a roommate with a MBA. Our wifi router died, and he's excited to get an airport extreme because, not only can he start backing up wirelessly, but also he can (or thinks he can) use a USB optical drive wirelessly.
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Apr 19, 2012
I have been trying to access my external hard drives that are hooked up to my mac mini from my imac and cant seem to do it. They are listed in the shared folder on the mac mini already.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 25, 2012
I recently got an imac, and I am new to the the mac world but decided I loved my iphone how bad could a mac be? My husband and I each have our computer he has a PC & I have a mac and a PC laptop.We bought an external hardrive to dump all my many many pictures on it.The idea is we will not save anything on our computers but instead work off of the hard drive that is automatically backed up.Ok now that you know the back ground.How can I view pictures from the external hardrive in iphoto with out haveing to make an iphoto library on my external hardrive.I would not mind putting all my pictures in the iphoto library as long as I could view or manipulate the pictures from a PC, does anyone know if this is a possibility? I have asked at the one to one sessions that I paid for but they can't help. I guess it also hard for them to help when I can't very well be lugging my desk top in and out of the mac store for help.
Any ideas I really like the iphoto tools and it could be very helpfull, but only if it doesn't limit me to always working from my computer.I have great photo editing software on my laptop and want to be able to access the pictures from my laptp edit save and later view from my mac.I found out how to make iphoto open the iphoto library on my external harddrive but I am asking for more.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iPhoto external HD PC sharing
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Mar 2, 2009
I have a G5 Imac and a G4 ibook. i want to use time machine, and have one external hard drive connect to both. I could get an external with more than one input (ie, usb and firewire)--does that work? Could i use a usb hub to connect the 2 computers to the HD, and set up different partitions?
And what of NAS? i do not want to set up a whole network (we already have one at my office, and i want this to be independent).
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May 2, 2009
I read this thread with much interest. [URL:..] While I don't need quite the storage space that guy needed, I am trying to figure out the best solution for me. New to the mac world, I have new 2.8 gHz 24" iMac (pre 9400m). I want to be able to share (read and write) all of my itunes and iphoto files with all users on the machine, and it seems as if using an external drive requires the least amount of trouble to set up to do this. I think I have 2 routes to go. I could get a raid 1 array like the WD Mybook studio II and forgo backups, using this as my raid protected file storage drive, though that post has me concerned about FW disconnection and Raid, which I don't quite understand. Since I don't need much space, I noticed Newegg has the WD studio 320gig w/ FW800 for $80 each. I figure one for media, one for time machine, and I am done, no messing with raid. I also have a fairly new 320 gig drive in a windows/linux machine I could buy a USB enclosure for and use with time machine, since buying a FW enclosure is equal in price to the WD studio 320g drive. I have been seeing issues with sleep modes on drives connected via firewire (WD especially), and have now researched my way into absolute confusion.
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Nov 2, 2007
Is it possible to use the built in Leopard Screen Sharing to control a PC? Can this be done from the "Shared" panel in the Finder?
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Jan 11, 2009
My girlfriend just got a new Macbook and we're trying to share files using AFP. In system preferences, I have (temporarily) allowed "everyone" privileges to read and write to my system, and she still can't access anything. It just says "connection failed" at the top of the window, and it doesn't give any other explanation other than that. If I type in my login credentials, it logs in just fine and I am able to read and write without any problems. In another thread, someone suggested repairing my disk permissions, and I get the following error:
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Warning: SUID file "System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpLoad" has been modified and will not be repaired. In yet another thread, I was told not to worry about SUID Warnings, but... the warnings to ignore listed in the Apple KB i was directed to did not include this specific warning. I suspect this permissions error has something to do with why she is unable to connect as a "guest" and it's driving me nuts.
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Feb 3, 2009
I have a Windows XP machine and I have some folders on there that I would like to share with "JUST" my iMac. I have other folders shared like pictures and music that I can see that is on my iMac as well as a 2nd Windows machine.
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Jun 15, 2009
Mac Pro with most recent 10.5 updates connected to net via wifi. I have a dell next to it with only a NIC card and no wifi. Is it possible to share my net connection from the mac to the pc, and would a crossover cable be required for this?
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Aug 10, 2009
For a while, I had the Express G linked with WDS to my Extreme. A few weeks ago I picked up an Express N, which is now the main relay in my network. But the new Express uses a different method for WDS than the older G model. I've tried many things, but I can't get all 3 devices to play nice with one another.
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Aug 21, 2009
I have a W7 RTM x64 desktop with a printer attached. I'd like to share this printer with my my UMBP. I tried the guide posted here: [URL:...] I kept getting an "authentication required" error despite repeatedly entering my password.
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Sep 21, 2009
I'm trying to share a printer that is connected to a Mac Pro with a Windows PC that sits adjacent to it. I've done the opposite before quite easily (share a printer connected to a PC with a Mac), but I've been having a time getting it working in reverse. Any idea how I might go about doing this? I've obviously enabled printer sharing but I'm having a difficult time getting Windows to see the printer.
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May 8, 2010
I want to share lots of files with around 10 people, I would like to be able to share a folder on my Mac (running latest snow leopard) and allow users on Mac's to download the files onto their computer.
Any ideas?
I've found ways to make the Mac into an FTP server but a lot of the tutorials are too vague.
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Apr 30, 2008
Does SMB on Mac OS X share over IPv6 as well as IPv4? I would rather my sharing be limited to the local ipv4 and maybe 6 network, and not to the entire world. Are there any configuration settings I can play with in order to configure SMB in this respect?
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Sep 2, 2010
I'm trying to install Office 2010 on a friends PC, but they've got a CD, NOT DVD drive. Can I somehow (Using software or not) connect my Mac to the PC, and use my Macs DVD Drive?
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Oct 12, 2010
My friend wants to send me a very large zip file. 447k mb large. The thing is we are both on the other side of the country (US). What would be the best way to do it? We tried rapidshare but things didn't work out (maybe because it was too big? idk
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Nov 19, 2010
new AppleTV and the possibility to access Netflix is my new goal. I am located in Norway, so it won't work without som tweaks.My solution is to buy a Pro VPN service from strongvpn.com, but that will only get it to work on my mac, not the Apple TV.I tried to share my work-VPN through airport to do a proof-of-concept, but I didn't get any internet.Is this possible to do? My iMac is connected to my Time Capsule through ethernet
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Dec 10, 2010
I'm wondering about the fastest way to share files (some of them large video files) between two Macs. One is a Mac Pro, the other a MacBook Pro.
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Dec 23, 2010
I was following some instructions on trying to get my time machine to backup to a Network Server SHARE on my home network, and I did one change that made time machine show it, and it tried and came back with a error 41 I believe it was. So I did some research on that, and ran some more commands to try and get it to allow the backup. Well after this, I am no longer able to connect to that SMB share anymore or ANY network share. I can't figure out how to fix this as I am not really familiar with MACs as good as some of you. Can anyone tell me how to fix this so I can access that share again?
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Sep 28, 2008
she was having and we tried screen sharing but could not get it to work. It will connect for about 2 seconds and then disconnect. It doesnt give an error message other than "Connection could not be established. We've done it before with no issues. If I try sharing my screen with her it works with no problem. And we are able to do video chatting. We both use 10.5.5 and we are on good web connections.
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Mar 21, 2009
I've just got a Samsung BD-P1500, which is enabled for "BD Live" Discs.
It has an ethernet port on the back which I would like to use to get online. Why not :-)
The router I have is too far away to have a direct ethernet connection, so I was wondering if I could use the ICS feature in OSX.
I've had it working for my Xbox previously and it worked fine. Only lag experienced was when I was surfing on the MacBook at the same time.
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Jul 2, 2009
It would also be useful to have things such as my calendar, address book and iphotos shared between my machines too.
I'm just wondering what people think is the best way to do this and whether there are any cool applications out there which could make this integration easier.
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Aug 25, 2009
I have a mac mini, and my friend just bought a Macbook Pro. I want to show him what screen sharing is but it says connection cannot be established.
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Oct 14, 2009
is there away to mount a share as hidden? or so it is mounted other then the desktop?
what i am trying to do is i have an application and it needs connection to a share that is located on a server. that share has read/write on it so that the application can run but i don't want people to be able to see it and play with other peoples data.
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Nov 14, 2009
i have a windows pc desktop, and a macbook. I often find myself transferring the odd file to mac, and its a long winded process as my pc is strange. Can i just set up a folder on my pc which my mac can access wirelessly? neetwork? would this be via internet? wi fi? bluetooth? I would just like to access and download the file to mac, wirelessly. is this possible? ive noticed on my mac finder window i sometimes have my desktop pc listed under the shared heading. but ive never learnt what and how this is possible.
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