So I've seen a few guides through Google that make it look simple enough. Basically I want to create a central shared folder on a Vista box (Home Premium I think) and allow 4-5 other computers to connect to it (including a Mac running OSX), allow those 4-5 computers to be able to read, write and delete files on that shared folder. Anyone set something like this up before? Any issues or gotchas?

5/5/2008 2:26:12 PM

is there something stopping you from just trying it?
I've never had a problem sharing and seeing shared folders on OS X, to and from Windows and other Macs. As far as Vista...... i've had mixed results

5/5/2008 2:44:24 PM

yes, i don't have the computers in front of me for testing/playing. this will be on someone elses PCs, and I'll have a limited amount of time with the mac (and I have very little OSX experience) so I'm trying to get as prepared as possible.

As it turns out the mac will beed to be able to see/edit/delete files on a Western Digital networked hard drive...so I guess first I need to see if that drive is compatible with osx. do i need two different file systems on the networked drive? 1 formatted ntfs for the vista machines and 1 formatted "OSxfilesystem"

5/5/2008 11:20:37 PM

1. create smb shares
2. there's no step 2 or 3

5/5/2008 11:23:10 PM

For vista, it's simply right-clight, properties, share. Haven't had any troubles with anyone reading it, including someone with OS X. You do have to set it to "co-owner" to give anyone full privileges though.

5/6/2008 1:14:18 AM

for networked drives it doesn't matter what file system are on them. you can have windows-only FSs on a drive, and Mac can read/write to them as long as they're shared through a Windows machine

5/6/2008 5:49:05 AM