Sharing files mac & PC

[Colin Mcquillan]

If you format an external HD for use on a mac, you can only read, not write the that drive on a PC. and vice versa on a PC using NTSF formating. Although,, if you format the drive with FAT32 formating you can read and write the the drive with both a PC and Mac,, but are limited to 4gig max file size.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Walter Biscardi]

[Colin McQ] “If you format an external HD for use on a mac, you can only read, not write the that drive on a PC.”

That’s actually incorrect. A Mac formatted drive will show up as un-readable by a Windows machine.

What you need to do is format the external drive on the PC as a Mac can read and write to a PC formatted drive.

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[Tom Wolsky]

Just install MacDrive on the PC to read/write Mac OS formatted discs.

All the best,

Tom

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[Philip Johns]

Thanks for the help guys – this is helpful, however I don’t think I asked the question properly. What I was meaning was how can I share an external hard drive attached to a mac over an ethernet network?

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[Colin McQ] “If you format an external HD for use on a mac, you can only read, not write the that drive on a PC.”

[Walter] That’s actually incorrect. A Mac formatted drive will show up as un-readable by a Windows machine.
What you need to do is format the external drive on the PC as a Mac can read and write to a PC formatted drive.

[Dmitry Dumarevskiy]

Hi!

For sharing any folder for PC over ethernet (smb protocol)
You should
1. find path to this folder
(for Your case in terminal print

ls /Volumes

)

2. edit file /etc/smb.conf :

sudo vi /etc/smb.conf

type Your password

press i (insert mode)

change in part about shared

path = /Volumes/YourFireWireVolumeName

comment all other unused sharing parts (;)

press escape

type :wq! (exit + rewrite)

(any problems – man vi)

3. In system Preference -> Sharing Start (or Stop and Start if
already running) Windows Sharing and choose User for login from remote PC to Your Mac.

P.S. You can edit file even in texEdit. If You will have some problems – send me smb.conf (in fact it is in /Private dir – type ls -l /etc) and Your FireWire Volume Name