Sharing File betwen Mac and Windows 10

[Tech bud]

Tried to share a file between mac and Windows 10 and failing.

Mac OS X Lion - 10.7.5

Steps:

Made sure network and sharing was turned on for both Windows and the MAC.
I had the network share set for everyone to read and write.
Got the windows IP Address
Tried to connect to server on Mac Go>Connect to server
Typed the smb://IP address
Fails to connect
Never get the chance to log in.

Obviously, those were the default steps to take.

I can ping both ways the windows 10 to mac and mac to windows 10.
There on the same subnet
I turned off the firewall on the windows machine, not that great with macs, so assuming it didn't have one and I was trying to connect to the windows machine
Power cycled the router.

I could only really find guides for MAC OS X LION 10.7.5 and Windows 7, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

I did check the options menu for the mac to make sure it was set to share with windows.

Any Mac people out there have any ideas? I hate Mac

 

[Sky-Knight]

On the MAC side, use IP instead of machine name. It should just let you login with an account on the Windows 10 side. The only catch is that the account in question must be password protected, no network access will be allowed without it.

This is assuming you've shared things properly on the Windows side, including configuring the Windows firewall.

 

[Tech bud]

On the MAC side, use IP instead of machine name. It should just let you login with an account on the Windows 10 side. The only catch is that the account in question must be password protected, no network access will be allowed without it.

This is assuming you've shared things properly on the Windows side, including configuring the Windows firewall.

I did use the IP of the machine: smb://192.168.1.8. I also disabled the firewall all together. Still no go.

I also checked the win setting, both set to workgroup.

I'm reading that on the Mac, 10.7 was the first version Apple got rid of samba and built there on file sharing. Lots of problems. But still trying

 

[timeshifter]

Any Mac people out there have any ideas? I hate Mac

You realize that Lion is ancient, kinda like XP ancient.

 

[Tech bud]

You realize that Lion is ancient, kinda like XP ancient.

I didn't realize it was that old, but new it was old. But still doesn't help me try to figure out why I can't share a file.

Setting up a VM with Moutain lion to mimic a share on my computer.

 

[timeshifter]

Have you verified that you can connect to that Windows share from another Windows computer or even a Linux computer?

What Windows - Home or Pro? What build?

 

[Markverhyden]

Have you verified that you can connect to that Windows share from another Windows computer or even a Linux computer?

What Windows - Home or Pro? What build?

^^^^ This. File sharing in W10 is not like it was with previous versions. It may be that W10 wants to use SMB3 and I don't think that 10.7 supports SMB3.

 

[timeshifter]

It works for me. Just tried it on my main Mac and one that's in the shop (that wouldn't have known about my Windows PC before). On my Windows 10 Pro 1803 box, shared entire drive D. From Macs, in Finder choose Go, Connect to Server, smb://pcname/share. Enter username and password. Both Macs are running latest macOS 10.13.6.

 

[Tech bud]

Have you verified that you can connect to that Windows share from another Windows computer or even a Linux computer?

What Windows - Home or Pro? What build?

I always get nervous in home visits and forget to check things. Not there right now, I actually thought of using my laptop that was with me to try and connect after I got home.

But it had to be Windows 10 17134 as I just got done running updates as I was tuning that up and setting up a back up while there.

As for home or pro, not positive, will have to check when I return.

It works for me. Just tried it on my main Mac and one that's in the shop (that wouldn't have known about my Windows PC before). On my Windows 10 Pro 1803 box, shared entire drive D. From Macs, in Finder choose Go, Connect to Server, smb://pcname/share. Enter username and password. Both Macs are running latest macOS 10.13.6.

Do I have to list the entire location of the share as: smb://192.168.1.19/users/Desktop/MacShare ???

The videos I was watching showed just typing the ip address?

 

[Tech bud]

^^^^ This. File sharing in W10 is not like it was with previous versions. It may be that W10 wants to use SMB3 and I don't think that 10.7 supports SMB3.

This is what I'm curious about too, as everywhere I read, on 10.7, they go rid of samba and this version of OSX is buggy

I'm also showing by default under windows feature SMB1 isn't enabled.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Win 10 17134 (1803) will still communicate with SMB v1 servers, unless you configured it otherwise.

But that being said I haven't tried it from a server side in awhile, it may very well require SMB v3 on the server service, in which case this situation is normal.

The real solution is to update OSX

 

[timeshifter]

Do I have to list the entire location of the share as: smb://192.168.1.19/users/Desktop/MacShare ???

On my Windows 10 box if I do a NET SHARE from a command prompt, I see the admin shares like c$ etc. Also see a share named "D" which is my data drive and I just specifically shared the whole thing for this test. Also see "Users" which is "C:\Users".

From the Mac I can connect to any of the following:

smb://pcname/d
smb://pcname/d/foldername/foldername2
smb://pcname/Users/username/desktop/sharedfolder

Also works if I substitute the IP address for the name (although testing with the IP is a good idea)

Whichever command I use, that final name becomes the mounted disk volume on the Mac. If I connect to smb://pcname/Users/username/desktop/sharedfolder then I can't navigate up to the Desktop.

But if I connect to smb://pcname/Users then I can browse everything underneath.

 

[Markverhyden]

I always get nervous in home visits and forget to check things. Not there right now, I actually thought of using my laptop that was with me to try and connect after I got home.

But it had to be Windows 10 17134 as I just got done running updates as I was tuning that up and setting up a back up while there.

As for home or pro, not positive, will have to check when I return.


Do I have to list the entire location of the share as: smb://192.168.1.19/users/Desktop/MacShare ???

The videos I was watching showed just typing the ip address?

All you need is the IP. Once the credentials, if required have been verified, it'll present a list of what to mount. They dropped Samba in 10.7 and instead rolled their own version of an SMB client which was buggy. Recent versions, as @timeshifter says, work just fine. I'd verify that the shares works in M$ first before spending more effort on the OS X side.