Share Your Windows 7 between Mac OS

Hi.. I would like to share my experience about how to share your Mac OS files between Windows 7. First, you need to prepare your Macbook/iMac and any Windows OS laptop, in this case I share my Mac OS 10.6.8 with Windows  7 SP 1. Here we go :

I. Setting on Windows 7 :

• Make sure that your workgroup setting and file sharing is enable. For workgroup setting, we used the default one "WORKGROUP" or we can rename it as you want :D.

Setting Workgroup Name

• Select which folder you want to share, I set the permission if the Guest have only Read access.
• The last one, remember your Windows laptop name :).

Nama Komputer Windows 7

II. next Step setting on your Mac OS :

• Make sure we enabled File Sharing option, go to System Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Sharing -> thick File Sharing -> Select the folder you want to share -> set the permission. I set everyone permission : Read and Write.

enable File Sharing

• Then click the Option button on the right corner, select "Share files and folders using SMB".

Centang SMB

• the setting is done, now we just need to set the Network to be 1 group with the Windows 7. I choose Wireless to connecting this network, Go back to System Preferences -> Internet & Network -> Network -> Airport -> click Advanced on right corner -> select WINS tab -> Fill the Workgroup which we already created on Windows (I choose the default name of Windows 7 setting named "WORKGROUP").

Sett Workgroup

• On Mac OS, Windows folder can only mounted/accessed by Go to Finder -> Go tab -> select Connect to Server (Command+Shift+K).

Connect to Server

• Fill the server address, the format is "smb://computer-windows-name" :

Nama Komputer di Windows 7

• Then we required to fill the username and password to access the Windows laptop, before I sett in Windows laptop that the Guest can accessed it, so I select as Guest -> Next -> select which folder we want to mount, I select the Documents folder.

Pilih Destination Folder

• Then Documents folder of Windows 7 already mounted on Mac OS, on the left menu Shared "psycho-bitch".

• On Windows laptop, we can see our Mac OS file, go to Network -> Macbook's name -> there are folder which already sett to be shared

Mount "psycho-bitch" on Mac

Mac OS file on WIndows 7

Happy access ^ ^