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Shared folder between Mac and Win11 (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, the issue I’m having is pretty straightforward and I don’t want to bore you:

I have a Mac and a Win11 PC on the same private network. I have a folder on Win11 that I want to share with Mac, and the other way around.

I’ve set up a new local user on the Win11 machine with accesso to that folder only (for security reasons). It has a user and a password, and when I try to connect to a new “server” on MacOS (cmd+k) and I input the folder path, I then log in with that user’s credentials just fine.

The issue is with the Mac folder shared on Win11: I’ve enabled SMB file sharing on the Mac and given the permissions on that folder to a “sharing only” account I’ve created locally. When on Win11 I try to connect to the Mac (I have to input the Mac’s IP, using “smb://…” doesn’t work), it asks for the credentials and it always says the “network password” is incorrect. The weird thing is, if I input the main MacOS account’s credentials I read the folder just fine (and everything else if course).

What am I doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

have you tried appending the name of the machine to the account? Either using ./username or machinename/username?

On windows you can use powershell to map it as well:

net use \mac\share /Username:machinename\user /persistent:yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Do you mean in the login popup? Is the “machine name” the one I’ve assigned to the Mac (the one included in the smb:// path in the SMB menu)?