Thread
Network Jag with Win NT
I just got a new job, and I decided rather than using a PC, I am going to talk work in to letting me use my iBook running Jaguar.
I brought the iBook in to work today, pulled the ethernet cable from my PC and plugged it in to the iBook. I can get on the internet with no problems, however, I need to know what I need to do to mount the server (there are 2 drives I need to access in order to work with some word and excel documents).
Can someone tell me how to mount these drives (or how to see the server/network neighborhood).
I tried to do a search in these forums but the search seems to be down at the moment.
I appreciate any help.
Peace,
O
B unce!
P.S. PLease explain this is layman's terms, as I am not all that familiar with Windows and windows networks. Assume I know nothing.
I brought the iBook in to work today, pulled the ethernet cable from my PC and plugged it in to the iBook. I can get on the internet with no problems, however, I need to know what I need to do to mount the server (there are 2 drives I need to access in order to work with some word and excel documents).
Can someone tell me how to mount these drives (or how to see the server/network neighborhood).
I tried to do a search in these forums but the search seems to be down at the moment.
I appreciate any help.
Peace,
O
B unce!
P.S. PLease explain this is layman's terms, as I am not all that familiar with Windows and windows networks. Assume I know nothing.
You need to be on the same subnet as the machines that you are trying to get to, with the right subnet mask (choose your IP address / mask manually, and set them to be the same as those on the PC that you are unplugging - warning: if you do this, do not have both machines on the network at the same time)
from the go menu, choose connect to server.
type:
smb://<workgroup>;<server>/<share>
where workgroup is the workgroup name
server is the server name or IP address
share is the sharename of the share
that you wish to connect to.
Jag will come back with a dialogue box asking for workgroup (which will be already filled in), username (which will be filled in with your mac username, which is not necessarily that same as your PC username) and password (fill in the one that matches the PC username!). Fill these in and hit return, and the share will show up on your desktop.
from the go menu, choose connect to server.
type:
smb://<workgroup>;<server>/<share>
where workgroup is the workgroup name
server is the server name or IP address
share is the sharename of the share
that you wish to connect to.
Jag will come back with a dialogue box asking for workgroup (which will be already filled in), username (which will be filled in with your mac username, which is not necessarily that same as your PC username) and password (fill in the one that matches the PC username!). Fill these in and hit return, and the share will show up on your desktop.
what is the default name for a workgroup? i am trying to edit my school web page from home, and they have an FTP block on the system
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Nebagakid: what is the default name for a workgroup? i am trying to edit my school web page from home, and they have an FTP block on the system |
Out of the box the default name for a windows workgroup is 'WORKGROUP' (without the quotes). It would be a pretty dumb sysadmin that left it that way.