Accessing OS X shares in Vista?

Right, I'm sure this is trivial, but...

I've some OS X Leopard shares on my network. Access is restricted to
users on the OS X Leopard Mac.
From Vista, if I try and map a drive to them, it prompts for a
username/password. So far, so good. However, it doesn't accept the
username and password I give it, I suspect because it's expecting a
local user on the PC from which I'm connecting: a thought backed up by
it defaulting to PC-name\username in the dialogue box.

How do I tell Vista to just use the account information on the remote
box and stop messing around?
I don't have this problem with any non-MS OSs.

Suggestions?
Ric

"Ric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:fdf056c7-1ba1-429e-9add-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Right, I'm sure this is trivial, but...
>
> I've some OS X Leopard shares on my network. Access is restricted to
> users on the OS X Leopard Mac.
> From Vista, if I try and map a drive to them, it prompts for a
> username/password. So far, so good. However, it doesn't accept the
> username and password I give it, I suspect because it's expecting a
> local user on the PC from which I'm connecting: a thought backed up by
> it defaulting to PC-name\username in the dialogue box.
>
> How do I tell Vista to just use the account information on the remote
> box and stop messing around?
> I don't have this problem with any non-MS OSs.
>
> Suggestions?

What is the name of your OSX system?

Use that in OSX-Name\username : password ....?

Alternatively, create a user on OSX of the same name and password as exists
on the the PC. Share some part of this user's file system. Then you should
be able to see this from the PC and connect to it.

--
Graham J

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:22:54 -0500, Ric wrote
(in article
<fdf056c7-1ba1-429e-9add-(E-Mail Removed)>):

> Right, I'm sure this is trivial, but...
>
> I've some OS X Leopard shares on my network. Access is restricted to
> users on the OS X Leopard Mac.
> From Vista, if I try and map a drive to them, it prompts for a
> username/password. So far, so good. However, it doesn't accept the
> username and password I give it, I suspect because it's expecting a
> local user on the PC from which I'm connecting: a thought backed up by
> it defaulting to PC-name\username in the dialogue box.
>
> How do I tell Vista to just use the account information on the remote
> box and stop messing around?
> I don't have this problem with any non-MS OSs.
>
> Suggestions?
> Ric

Turn on SMB sharing. The username you should use is in the format
username@sharename. If the Mac is named Kilimanjaro, and the user is Lenana,
then the username is (E-Mail Removed)l. Usernames are not case
sensitive. Passwords, however, are.

--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

On 22 Nov, 19:19, J.J. O'Shea <try.not...@but.see.sig> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:22:54 -0500, Ric wrote
> (in article
> <fdf056c7-1ba1-429e-9add-9cb68d598...@u14g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>):
>
>
>
> > Right, I'm sure this is trivial, but...
>
> > I've some OS X Leopard shares on my network. Access is restricted to
> > users on the OS X Leopard Mac.
> > From Vista, if I try and map a drive to them, it prompts for a
> > username/password. So far, so good. However, it doesn't accept the
> > username and password I give it, I suspect because it's expecting a
> > local user on the PC from which I'm connecting: a thought backed up by
> > it defaulting to PC-name\username in the dialogue box.
>
> > How do I tell Vista to just use the account information on the remote
> > box and stop messing around?
> > I don't have this problem with any non-MS OSs.
>
> > Suggestions?
> > Ric
>
> Turn on SMB sharing. The username you should use is in the format
> username@sharename. If the Mac is named Kilimanjaro, and the user is Lenana,
> then the username is len...@kilimanjaro.local. Usernames are not case
> sensitive. Passwords, however, are.
>
> --
> email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

Found it. Users in OS X who are "sharing only" can't access SMB
shares.
Solution: create full user account, under sharing...options tick that
user for SMB access, then set file permissions as usual.
Grr.