For months I have been using a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.4 as a server at work to house my MAMP scripts and AHK scripts. In a previous post I described how to network a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4 to a windows domain. IT TURNS OUT THOSE INSTRUCTIONS DO NOT WORK FOR SNOW LEOPARD (OS X 10.6). I brought in a back up MacBook Pro and much internet research did not generate a solution for weeks. Until Now.
The secret: On the Mac go to System Preferences>Network>Advanced>WINS>NETBIOS Name. This is where the name of the computer resides. I had been putting the name of the computer into my windows domain machines as specified in System Preferences>Sharing>File Sharing for weeks in a futile effort to connect. It was the wrong name. Thus, for MAMP server the URL is http://netbiosname:8888/MAMP and for the AHK scripts the server is \\netbiosname\macusername. It's that simple. I swear, nobody in the universe knows this little factoid.
Whether it made a difference or not, some other system adjustments were made according to "internet advice". They may be necessary too, I am not sure. All I know is I did them before I found that last little secret and the whole system works very nicely. Those other things included setting the workgroup to to MACPC (not sure why that would matter, all of the windows machines are in a domain, not a workgroup), of course making sure the mac is connected to the correct wireless router with the same network as the other machines (again, not sure if it matters, since most of the machines are connected by ethernet to the network), and I used my "Launcher" on my mac to run "Directory Utility" and put a checkmark in the "Activate Directory" box. For what it's worth. And I went into aforementioned sharing and did everything in my previous post, plus activated privileges for guests, added myself as a user, activated ftp, etc. (Note- the "Windows Sharing" pane present in 10.4 doesn't exist in 10.6) Have fun with this. Networking is a real bear.
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