Teach you to let Mac devices access Win7 LAN sharing

Many Mac users using Win7 have a problem with the inability to access the Win7 LAN share, because the Mac device's OS X system differs from the Windows of a normal PC device, so when it comes to interoperability between the two devices, It is usually not as easy to implement as two devices running the same system, such as a MAC device accessing the LAN share of the WINDOWS7 system, and of course not being able to access it successfully. In fact, it is not difficult to access the share, just follow the following steps to do it.

Netizens Macliang shared the MAC device Access Windows7 system LAN sharing method, just a few simple steps to make the MAC device successfully access to share, together to see how to do it.

1. First, the MAC device access to the WINDOWS7 system LAN share is a prerequisite that the MAC device and the PC running Windows7 are on the same LAN, and the WINDOWS7 system is set to a guest user can access remotely. It is important to note that most of the WINDOWS7 systems installed using the Quick Install tool will turn this option off, and all we have to do is turn it on.

2. Remember the PC name and group user name (right-click on "My Computer" to see the group user name in the properties, default is WORKGROUP). Once this is done, we can use the other PCs in the same LAN to try to access the local area network share of the target PC.

3. Set up the folder you want to share and its access rights, note that you must give the Guest user permission here. At this point, the PC-side setup is complete, followed by the MAC device.

4. On your Mac device, go to Settings > Network > Advanced > WINS, set your Mac's computer name and workgroup name, and the workgroup name must be the same as the PC side, otherwise you will not end up accessing the PC-side LAN share.

5. After returning to Settings, network > Sharing > Options, tick "share files and folders using SMB".

6. Go to the finder of the MAC device (the Finder functions like Windows Explorer), and in the menu choose Go to > Connect server, enter the server address as follows:

SMB://PC the computer name, or the IP address of the SMB://PC

If the requirement to enter a user name is present, you can select the Guest user, and if the guest user is not set on the WINDOWS7 system to be remotely accessible, it cannot be accessed successfully.

For the above steps, Macliang also gives several suggestions according to the situation that he encounters:

-PC-side sharing settings is very troublesome, users can download a WINDOWS7 system LAN Setup tool, the Internet on a search on it.

-If the first and second steps cannot be completed successfully, consider establishing a new account in the WINDOWS7 system, remembering the user name and password. Of course, you should pay attention to opening permissions to this new account when you are sharing a folder.