File Sharing Mac OS X Lion and PC Windows 7

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• trickYguY... this is not working, for me... Followed your steps, verbatim.

  It does seem strange that your image capture of the logon dialog shows the same problem I'm experiencing: "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password"

  • If the username and password dialog is displayed on Windows then you are connected to the Mac computer, what you have to do is type the correct Username and Password of the Mac user.

    As you are saying my captured screenshot is also showing same error, it shows by default when prompting for the Username & Password first time.

    If you still facing problem, send me the screenshot Step-6 & 7 from your Mac or use Contact page to get help privately.

    • I have got the same problem. I went through all your steps but when I wanted to log on section to mac got the same error "Bad user name and password"I did it many times and also changed the useer name and password but unfortunately got the same problem. My windows 7 see the Mac on networking but I cant access to Mac folders. asking me unetwork user name and password . I fill it the exact user name and apassword buy no access.
      Also about IPaddress in sharing window I havnt got it instead i got aft:\\myname.local. Please let me know any solution.thanks

    • Thanks for your guide. At last I did it with creating another user name and password. thanks

    • Hi TrickYguY

      I see your post on "file sharing mac os x lion and pc windows 7" and I wish you thank you, thank you very much, it help me...

      All work fine as you mentionned, but I would like to know why my MAC (os x lion) computers not show up into my Windows Explorer / Network ?!? I can see only my Windows PC's

      Maybe you know why ?! Or anybody has a solution ??

      Thank you in advance for your help...

      Regards

      • Check this guide to access Windows 7 files on Mac OS X Lion http://www.trickyways.com/2011/08/access-pc-windows-7-files-from-mac-os-x-lion/

        • It works too, but try to says, Windows 7 machines cannot see the OS X Lion file share machine when they go to "Network". They have to type the machine name in manually into the run or Windows explorer. So annoying. (and I don't want make a network map)

• when I type my MAC's username and password from windows 7, it says unknown username or bad password

• Thank you, worked for me but I see one problem. Why do we see Macintosh HD. It gives access to every files on the mac. Is it possible to hide this folder ???

  • If the user is Administrator level that you have selected in step-5 or 6 then you will see all the folders on Windows 7 including Macintosh HD.

    I suggest you to create a new "Standard" or "Sharing Only" level user

    To create a new user goto "System Preferences" > "Users & Groups" and create a new "Standard" or "Sharing Only" user by clicking on + button. After creating user repeat the steps 4,5 & 6.

    Feel free to contact again.

• My Macbook pro running OS X Lion has a very annoying problem with printer sharing. I have PC printer shared, mac sees printer but every time i send print job have to enter user id and password from PC.
  How do i get mac to remember ID and password, which is PC user id and password?
  Thanks
  Larry

• On Step #6, when the Authenticate window comes up, I enter my password and receive an "Incorrect Password" message. I've reentered it at least a dozen times and been very careful about capitalization. Still no luck.

  Sharing worked for me under Snow Leopard and I can still see my Win 7 shared folders on my Mac. However, no matter what I've tried, I cannot see my Mac or my Mac's shared folders on my Win 7 System.

  • Hi,

    I know this problem, probably this is bug. Don't create new user by clicking on + button in step-5.
    Either select existing user from the Users list in step-5 or create a new user from "Apple Icon" > "System Preferences” > “Users & Groups” and create a new “Standard” or “Sharing Only” user by clicking on + button. After creating user repeat the steps 4,5 & 6.

    • please help me I creat new standard user so I am not able to log in to mac at all with both users. please help me
      my mac locked completey only i can seemy both to users

• Tried your suggestion. Have tried both the Administrator user account and a Standard account. No dice. Anyway I can send you 4 jpg screenshots showing what I'm seeing. I still get "Incorrect Password" in Step 6. If I ignore this and proceed in your procedure, I get a strange result in the Windows Security window in step 9. Instead of a blank where you enter trickyways, I get a field that's already filled in with the following:

  MY_WINDOWS_ADMINISTRATOR_ACCOUNT\MY_MAC_ADMINISTRATOR_ACCOUNT

  Obviously, we have something set up differently and I cannot determine what that is.

  • Please send me the screenshots of step-5,6 (If you don't know the to take screenshots see this guide)
    send: admin at trickyways dot com

• Hi, I was just wondering how to do the reverse of this? IE access the files i have on my windows 7 pc from my mac? I could do it fine before Lion (SMB obviously) how do i do it now? cheers

  • Look at the end of the article.

• I'm getting a lot of weird errors when I access the files. When I re-name folders in Windows it gives me strange names until I back out and refresh the folder (often it deletes the first letter and then adds a weird symbol at the name of the folder). Also, when I save a document that's a word document and I do a save as, instead of asking if I want to re-write, it deletes the first letter of the file name, without asking, and saves it that way. Do you think I have network issues or this is a defect?

• Before upgrading to OSX Lion, filesharing between OSX and Windows 7 worked.
  Installed a fresh copy of Lion, enabled File Sharing, SMB, set shared folders and users, created a new user from the User Accounts and still no luck.
  Getting the same "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password".

  I first assumed it's from the windows domain name which gets inserted before the username. Using a \ before the username seems to get rid of the domain but still the same problem.

  I've disabled File Sharing on the OSX system and still get the enter network password when trying to connect to the ip of the Mac.
  Who is asking for the password if file sharing is off ?
  I guess this is the problem everybody else is facing but I can't find a solution.

  (I've also tried installing samba 3 in the process but then uninstalled it - using macports )

• Restart OSX after making the changes. This worked for me after wasting two hours.