I know that is supposed to be easy to connect mac to pc but my mac or maybe my pc ( i do not know wich one?)I have tried evry possible way to connect the both computers by cross cable direct cable hub changed the network cables to elimanate any possibilities asigned ip adress creating a new work group ect but still I can not get them to see each other I have a good knowledge in mac and pcs but did not help and what drives me more crazy is that windows xp professional tell me when my mac is turned off by telling me that the network cable is unplugged and when I turn my mac it tell me that the network cable is pulgged I have searched the net for more information but still no help so please can you help me? thank you I have windows XP proffessional edition and Mac os X 10.2.6

Have you enabled sharing or shared folders in WinXP? You have to have that turned on or it will not show on the Mac. The Win box will not see the Mac either if you do not have sharing enabled on the Mac.

Hi waswas...... an William believe me I did it!!! and is imposible to see the MAC and also if I do a ping to the MAC the windows can see it, so anyway, William if you can resolve this problem, please share it!!!! regards!!!

try DAVE for OSX i used it once altough i can connect with no problem without. did you enabled "windows logon" on the mac?

Use Samba. If you're on OS X I believe it should be there (I don't know if it's installed by default though). Samba is a Unix/Linux software used to allow Unix-based computers to connect to and be seen by Windows. I've got a BSD box running it and have no problems transfering files between it and my Windows box.

I am having exact same problem... Please help. I cannot see the PC with Win XP on the MAC or viceversa and when I ping both machine can comunicate... I also tried following the directions in the MAC 10.2.6 help session "Connecting to a windows computer from a MAC" but it did not work. One thing that is confusing in those directions is the following statement: "If you don't see the computer, type the DNS name or IP address for the computer in the Address text using this format: smb://ComputerName.CompanyName.com" Well, it does not make sense to me, first of all, that if you would use an ip address the format would look like that, and second, my computer has a name, but what is the company name supposed to be? Someone please help us... Thanks a lot, Antonio

Try Sharity at http://www.obdev.at/products/ sharity/index.html I can see my PC from my Mac, but I can't see my Mac from my PC yet. I'm working on it.