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10.5: Permissions and SMB shares in Leopard
Authored by: Blood-Of-A-Pirat on Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 5:18AM PDT

I am having HUGE issues with SMB. All I want to do is share my files from my macbook to my boyfriend's PC. Is there anyone willing to give me a step by step guide on how to enable this to happen? I've been going in circles for weeks trying to figure this out. All of this FTP, SMB etc stuff is new and scary to me I haven't got a clue where to start. Somebody please help!

10.5: Permissions and SMB shares in Leopard
Authored by: msephton on Tue, May 13 2008 at 5:10AM PDT

OK, I found the very simple solution!

If the IP address of the Mac you are trying to connect to is: 192.168.1.190
And the username of the user whose files are being shared is: foo

You should enter your smb login username as: 192.168.1.190foo
On some systems you may need a backslash before it: \192.168.1.190foo

I found this information here:
http://technojunkie.org/berniec/ridingitout/2007/11/vista-and-leopards-windows-filesharing.html

Good luck everybody!
matt