Snow Leopard and Windows 7 networking - Can't see in Finder

First - you do have file sharing turned on.?...if so, under options, you have smb and afp enabled?

Also, are you using wireless..or..ethernet or combined?

Have you tried on the finder menu - to go => connect to server => and manually try connecting to the windows machines using - smb:\\<windows 7 ip address>?

Also, check to make sure your Workgroups on both the mac and windows machines are set correctly. On the mac - you can check in System Preferences => Internet and Wireless => Network => Advanced =>Wins.

+Also, check to make sure your Workgroups on both the mac and windows machines are set correctly. On the mac - you can check in System Preferences => Internet and Wireless => Network => Advanced =>Wins.+

Here is a post I found that may or may not help you:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10708489

Double Post - can one of the moderators/hosts please delete this one

Rick

Maybe I am misunderstood what your issue is? You mentioned you couldn't see the Windows 7 under shared in finder - if you do the connect with server - you should see them listed under finder. Also, in response to anyone else having a remedy for this - the link I provided, sounded like an issue someone else had that was similar to yours? Did you read it?

I am curious to see how this issue is resolved?

Rick

I am wondering if this could be related to who's the Master Browser within the group of computers. It may very well be that the Windows 7 computers in this role are causing the problem.

It is an example of the Master Browser problem.

Try booting your Macs first. When they are up and running, then boot your PC's. After a couple of minutes they should appear.

If the PC's start first, they will become the Master Browser for the network, and your Mac will fail to query them properly.

Thanks for confirming that Rodney -

After you re-booted your machines - leaving the Windows 7 for last, you can check the status of the MB, by doing the following:

In Terminal - nmblookup -M-- -. (notice the 3 dashes followed by a period) you should see

querying _MSBROWSE_ on 10.0.1.255
10.0.1.6 _MSBROWSE_<01>

or...by going to the pc and typing - net view - and after listing your computers..you can go through each one by typing

nbtstat - a <computer name>

and look for the one with the .. msbrowse. entry.

I would do it from the mac - as its easier

I just bought the new macbook pro this Monday and I had to transfer huge amount of files from my Win7 laptop. I was able to share my Win7 c:/ d:/ and "User" drives on the sharing network. It's pretty easy if you follow this tutorial on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSm0YflelJ4

In summary
On Win7:
- join a Workgroup if you haven't; if you're already part of Homegroup, turn file sharing on
- go to the files or drives you want to share with then right-click. Go to >share with >specific person>
- Set up an account for "Guest", and add privileges

On Mac OSx (mine's Snow Leopard 10.6.6)
- Go to finder, on the window type cmd+K or right-click to finder and click "Connect to Server" (both are the same)
- type in smb://[pc name]/user
- Connect

If you want to connect to other files or drives on Win7, just allow sharing with "Guest" by adding privileges, you do the same for Mac with Network Sharing.

Hope this helps.

Per my post above with regards to the Master Browser, I found a fix that would keep it permanent...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2635359&tstart=45

Rick