Mac/PC Folder Sharing Advice

Posted on November 7th, 2007 | by Chris Nixon |

Macbook

I am looking for Mac/PC folder sharing advice. I have a shared folder of .avi files on my Media Center that I want to add to from my Mac. When I try to copy the files across, OSX tell me I don’t have write access.

Sure enough, when I look at the folder on the PC it is marked as “read only”. I unclick it and hit apply, and all looks fine. However when I look again, it has marked itself as “read only” again, and I still don’t have permissions in OSX.

I have tried accessing through OSX using my windows log-in rather than as a guest, but this appears to make no difference.

Can anybody help?

Update from Pownce:

  • Mathias Pastwa replied 23 hours ago

    turn of the easy share o windows (in explorer window>extra>folderoptions) uncheck easy share. then you can manual set the r/w premissons. here is a link with screenshots (sorry it’s all german) but windows is the same :)
    http://z00t.org/smb/

  • Chris Nixon replied 23 hours ago

    many thanks…i’ll let you know how i get on this evening

  • Mathias Pastwa replied 23 hours ago

    one thing i forgot, try to reset the owner rights “http://z00t.org/smb/005.jpg” at Erweitert :) dont worry m$ place the buttons on the same place (;

  • Chris N.Chris N. replied just now!

    Thanks for your help, Mathius. In the end it didn’t work, but I’m sure it was because of the way the workgroup was set-up in Windows. I was able to write to shared folders on my other PC fine, until I went through the same set-up as I did on MCE…now I can’t write to shared folder there either.

    However….I have created a new folder within the shared folder on MCE, and I can write files to there across the network from the mac.

    Very strange, but problem (mostly) solved.

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