#MAC USE AFP FOR WINDOWS MACHINES INSTEAD OF SMB PASSWORD#
#MAC USE AFP FOR WINDOWS MACHINES INSTEAD OF SMB PC#

#MAC USE AFP FOR WINDOWS MACHINES INSTEAD OF SMB PC#

In bridged mode, there's no difference in how you network to a virtual machine and how you network to a PC on your home or office network. (All the parent directories were visible but read-only.)Īnyway, one thing to notice about all this stuff: there's no VMware in it anywhere. Then I was able to drill down to the subdirectory of my home directory I had shared.

#MAC USE AFP FOR WINDOWS MACHINES INSTEAD OF SMB PASSWORD#

I saved the password in my keychain, so as not to have to keep retyping it. So I had to click 'Connect As.' and give my Vista username and password. In this case, the file server is the Vista virtual machine. Caution: connections to network shares are always done using a username and password on the file server. Now I was able to contact the share through the Mac's Finder (I have Leopard, so there's a SHARED section in the left column of Finder). Then I went through the dialogue for sharing the folder. I went over to Windows Explorer (which is the Windows equivalent of Finder) and right-clicked on a folder and clicked Share. Good news: Vista thinks it's in a private network (instead of a 'public' network, which is Vista's way of saying 'I think you are in a coffeehouse or airport'), and that 'Inbound connections that do not have an exception are blocked.' If all inbound connections were blocked, we would not be able to do any file sharing. I clicked on the link, and here's what I got. (If I were using a third-party firewall, I would have to go configure it separately.) Notice also that there's a link in the lower left corner for 'Windows Firewall.' I happen to be using Windows Firewall on this virtual machine I'm not using, for example, the firewall that Symantec sells as part of its security suite. I might have had to turn that on, depending on how this Vista instance had been previously configured.

Notice that it says that file sharing is on. Then I clicked the button for 'Network and Sharing Center.' Here's what that looks like. Notice that file sharing is off by default. First, I clicked on the little Windows logo at the lower left corner of the screen, which takes the place of previous Windows versions' Start menu, and opened the Network panel.

I just fired up my own Vista virtual machine and took some screenshots. OK, bridged mode is definitely the way to go if you want your Mac to be able to browse file shares in your virtual machine.

Mac use afp for windows machines instead of smb