[FX.php List] [off-topic] A Windows question...

[Jason LEWIS]

Bob,

XP will work great with OSX SMB filesharing.  To find a SMB server across subnets, you need to use the \\servername.domain.example.com\sharename format.

Jason

>>> Kevin Futter <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au> 05/10/2007 4:23 PM >>>
> On 11/5/07 4:12 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here's a question that I think I can already answer, but:
> > 
> > In my brief stint on the Windows platform, I never connected to a
> > Mac's drive. Is it possible, without any extra software, for a PC
> > user to mount a Mac drive remotely?
> > 
> 
> Bob, SMB (Samba) is probably your best bet. OS X has support built in, but
> I'm not sure how it works on XP (I suspect there's native support for it
> though, as I seem to remember using it before on my mixed platform home
> network without doing anything special).