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Make Macs appear in Windows' Network Neighborhood
Authored by: Shiver758 on Oct 22, '03 05:22:47AM

Dude. If you're trying to get Windows to see Linux boxes, there's an easier way.

Get an scp client (I recommend the putty one, try a google search for putty ssh). Then scp the appropriate .reg file from /usr/share/doc/samba- on the Linux box to somewhere on your windows box, then double click on it in windows.

It does the same thing, and for newer windows versions, there are a couple of other fixes as well.

I'm guessing this works because OS X uses samba as well.

BTW, if you don't have a Linux box handy.. Get one.

Just joking. Check this: http://samba.planetmirror.com/samba/ftp/docs/Registry/ (that's an Aussie mirror, btw). It has all the files, and you don't even have to install samba anywhere.

I'm not sure why Apple didn't include these files, but there ya go. Yet another weirdness in the Apple versions of OS software.

have fun.



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Make Macs appear in Windows' Network Neighborhood
Authored by: stonematt on May 04, '05 06:50:58PM

For non-technical users, WinSCP is great (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php).

It's an GUI scp client for windows that looks like a windows explorer, with folder trees, drag and drop copy, etc. Windows users get it right away.



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