If you are using both Mac and PC at your home or office and want to access Windows 7 Files on Mac OS X Lion, in this guide you will see how to do that. If you want to see the reverse method then i have already posted that how to access Mac OS X files from Windows 7.
Note: Make sure both Windows 7 and OS X Lion computers are on same network.
Steps on PC Windows 7
Step-1
Right-click con Computer icon, select Properties option
In the System Properties Windows, note down the Computer name and Workgroup name
Step-2
Now open Windows Explorer / My Computer, on the left-side click on Network. If the “network discovery and file sharing if turned off” You will see a yellow bar message
Click on the yellow message bar and select “Turn on network discovery and file sharing” option
Steps on Mac OS X Lion
Step-3
On Mac OS X Lion click on Apple icon and select “System Preferences”
Under “Internet & Wireless” section, click on “Network” icon
Click on “Advanced” button
Step-4
Select the “WINS” tab, type the Windows Workgroup name that you noted down in step-1, click OK and then Apply buttons.
Access Windows 7 folders from OS X Lion
Step-5
Press cmd+K from keyboard or from Mac home screen click on “Go” menu and select “Connect to Server”
Step-6
In the “Server address” text box type the Windows 7 Computer Name that you have noted down in step-1.
Instead of computer name you can use the IP address as well. To find IP address of the Windows Computer: Press Windows+R keys from keyboard, type “cmd” and hit the enter key. In the Command Prompt windows type the command ipconfig, locate the IP address and note it down.
Use smb:// before the computer name or IP address, e.g. smb://Computer-Name or smb://192.168.2.15
When you type the Server Address, hit the “Connect” button
Step-7
Mac will prompt for Windows 7 user’s account name and password, type and hit the “Connect” button.
Step-8
In the next windows select the folder that you want to mount on Mac and hit the OK button
So you have successfully access Windows 7 files on OS X Lion. Everytime you open the Finder window on Mac you will see the mounted Windows 7 folder/volume on the left-side under Shared section.
Mount a specific Windows 7 partition on Mac OS X Lion
Suppose you want to mount D drive of Windows 7 on Mac, what you need to do is in step-6 type the server address like this
smb://Computer-Name/D$ or smb://IP-Address/D$
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I had Snow Leo and it worked by these steps. Now I upgraded to Lion and i doesn't anymore.
I have
-same account and same pwd on both the computers
-same workgroup on both
going to server->smb://pc-name
I get password prompt, but the password results incorrect (obviously it isn't)
Does anybody know about this?
Windows 7 showing problems sometimes connecting to Mac Lion OS:
Sometimes Windows 7 may not show your Mac on the Network even when you apply the steps mentioned above.
I found that you can solve by doing a very simple thing in your Mac:
1. Unselect all a your shared folders on your Mac.
2. Then reselect Sharing Files again and activate SMB (windows) in
"options" (Shown above the sharing windows9).
This will simple make you Mac visible and easily accessible again by your Windows 7 PC.
I did this in my home, my office and for a couple of friends and we are all happy. I hope this works for you guys. Couldn't believe was so simple. The web is full of options, but this shows that it is not a problem with the Lion OS.
This worked once I restarted both machines. Thank you.
OMG!! Thanks the lord. This worked. Finally cracked it after hours of googling and trial and error.
THANK YOU!!!
I'm stuck at Step-7
Mac will prompt for Windows 7 user’s account name and password, type and hit the “Connect” button.
Where do I get the account name and password? I'm on an iMac and I want to get some files off my Windows 7 PC.
Update: I created a password for the Windows 7 PC and pressed connect.
It wanted my user id and password. I entered "Administrator" and the newly created password and I still cannot connect.
and I used it with a capital and a lower case "a". (administrator).
I still can't connect. Any further suggestions, please?
I’m stuck at Step-7 too
I don't put any password on Win 7, but it asked a password.
Any further suggestions, please ?
thanks b4
Someone please reply to us. I've tried these steps over and over.
Thank you.
I just did it today and it worked. I also ran into the issue with the password so I went to the PC and edited the admin account and gave it a user name "Admin" and created a password. I saved it and backed out of the user administration screens. I went back to my Mac with Lion on it and input my newly created username and password and it immediately connected.
I found on my WIN7 machine that the logged in user is not what I thought. I had some time prior changed the user name in User Accounts. You can check what users are current in WIN 7. Open a cmd prompt, and type net user. It will list the current accounts. Check that your login name is in the list.
Great...¡¡¡ This worked for me all right...finally...¡
When I typed "net user" it showed three usernames: Administrator, Guest and one more which in my case was W7. I tried the two first ones and kept saying it was wrong username or password but when I typed the last one and used the same password I always had it finally connected to my Windows 7 PC and with all its drives...¡
Guess you have to try all the users net user command will show you...
Hope this work for all people having this problem...
Thanks.
I gave up hope for an answer and since I also had all my PC files backed up to an off-site server, I downloaded them from there.
I don't need to share files between the two, and don't want to. The PC was a temporary holding spot for the 48,237 files! :)
Thank you for the replies. I'll save them in case I need to do this again in the future.
There'll always be other questions, so I'll be back.
Have you check your firewall / antivirus settings ?
it could block the sharing.
had the exact same problem as you and been trying with the changing the user name on windows BUT
just found the easiest solution for this!:
for the files or drive you share, right click on on it and go to properties -> sharing -> share -> Add Guest into the list
and when you connect it from the mac, just choose connect as Guest
For those who don't like logging onto windows with a password, this is the best way and u go back and turn it off now.
it works perfectly now.
cheers