Shared folder between Mac and Win11
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?
2 replies
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
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)?