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Oct 25, 2007, 10:26 PM
Thread was moved from "Parallels Desktop for Mac > Windows Guest OS Discussion".
Stacey M
For all people TRYING to access their shared parallels folder in Windows 98 that they probably already set up for windows XP - the following worked for me:
Adding a New Share:
Open the Terminal and type
sudo pico /etc/smb.conf
If you're prompted for your user password, enter it.
You should now see the contents of your smb.conf file, complete with the [global] and [homes] sections described above, as well as some sample sections for [public] and [printers].
Give yourself some space after the [homes] section by moving the cursor below it and pressing the enter key a few times. Now type in exactly what appears below:
[shared]
comment = Shared Directory
path = /Users/Shared
read only = no
browseable = yes
create mode = 755
Once you've entered these changes, press Ctrl+O and then enter to save the file, then press Ctrl+X to quit.
To verify that your changes were saved successfully, use the command cat /etc/smb.conf and read through to be sure everything is there.
Now the changes don't immediately take effect. To make Samba aware of the changes, use the command in terminal
sudo killall -HUP smbd
This will tell the Samba daemon to reload its configuration information.
Logged into Windows 98
Click on My computer or anything that will get you the address bar.
Type in
\\your ip address or your mac's computer name \shared
In my case I typed in:
\\192.168.1.102\shared
And voila, you should be able to see your shared parallels file now (or if you didn't have a parallels folder on the mac side you can create one.)
The resource I used to get this is:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/18/samba.html
There's some additional information there about settings and security if you are trying to accomplish something similar but different.
Stacey M
For all people TRYING to access their shared parallels folder in Windows 98 that they probably already set up for windows XP - the following worked for me:
Adding a New Share:
Open the Terminal and type
sudo pico /etc/smb.conf
If you're prompted for your user password, enter it.
You should now see the contents of your smb.conf file, complete with the [global] and [homes] sections described above, as well as some sample sections for [public] and [printers].
Give yourself some space after the [homes] section by moving the cursor below it and pressing the enter key a few times. Now type in exactly what appears below:
[shared]
comment = Shared Directory
path = /Users/Shared
read only = no
browseable = yes
create mode = 755
Once you've entered these changes, press Ctrl+O and then enter to save the file, then press Ctrl+X to quit.
To verify that your changes were saved successfully, use the command cat /etc/smb.conf and read through to be sure everything is there.
Now the changes don't immediately take effect. To make Samba aware of the changes, use the command in terminal
sudo killall -HUP smbd
This will tell the Samba daemon to reload its configuration information.
Logged into Windows 98
Click on My computer or anything that will get you the address bar.
Type in
\\your ip address or your mac's computer name \shared
In my case I typed in:
\\192.168.1.102\shared
And voila, you should be able to see your shared parallels file now (or if you didn't have a parallels folder on the mac side you can create one.)
The resource I used to get this is:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/18/samba.html
There's some additional information there about settings and security if you are trying to accomplish something similar but different.