Mac OS X connecting to Windows file sharing

[petesimon]

A buddy was using Final Cut Pro on Macintosh and wanted to import some photoshop files that were on a remote Windows PC. So, with both computers on a network, in Finder of Mac OS X 10.2 (or better) he used the "Connect to Server" menu selection and filled in the necessary share-name/user/password info and an drive icon showed up on the desktop.

On the other hand, I suppose any Windows 2000 or XP machine could connect to the Mac using the Mac's IP address instead of a name.

See these web links:

good! http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/smbdoc.html
good! http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/2940 (oreilly)

http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/osxsmb.html (apple)
http://xamba.sourceforge.net/index.shtml (old, but good reference)

Printing from Mac OS X to Windows:
http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/print_to_windows.html

"SMB Browse" software tool for Mac OS X:
http://shukwit.com/modules.php?name=Downloads

[galactica]

at first I thought you were asking HOW
but it looks like you figured it out...

good.

All this is listed on apples support site as well

[petesimon]

Hey. Thanks for the reply anyway.
Do you know more about Mac-to-Windows file sharing access than what I already posted here.
I wonder if Mac OS X can change security permissions and the owner/user of files and folders of the remote Windows system? U-know, just like a Windows XP client can change these when connected to a Windows XP file sharing server.
Samba 3.x series SMB/CIFS file sharing software talks about doing some fancy Windows 2000/XP-like functions.

What do you think?

Samba website: http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html

[galactica]

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html

This is the only app that is worth persuing on this part. Its by far the best Mac to PC filesharing one out there.

Been a while since I have done this, but I used it almost exclusively to get into my Undergrad Netowrk, which was nothing but a PC campus and me and my Mac in the dorm