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#CONNECTION FAILED MAC FILE SHARING MAC OS X#
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Note: These instructions assume you are using Mac OS version 10.1.2.

For an example, see article Q304040: "Description of File Sharing and Permissions in Windows XP" These may include Help files installed on your computer or the Microsoft online Knowledge Base. Check Microsoft support resources for information on setting up file sharing on your Microsoft Windows-based computer.

When troubleshooting a connection failure, you can ping the IP address of the Windows computer using the Mac OS X Network Utility to verify a TCP/IP connection between the two computers.

Mac OS X connects to SMB via the TCP/IP protocol, not via the NetBIOS protocol.

This is the message that would appear if you mistyped your password, for example. " This is sometimes correct and sometimes incorrect.

The only alert message that Mac OS X displays for SMB login difficulties is "There's no file service available at the URL.

Drag one volume to the Trash to eject it before connecting to another.

Connecting to (mounting) two or more SMB volumes simultaneously may cause a kernel panic.

Resolve the issue by giving the share a name that does not contain a hyphen.

You cannot connect to a share with a name that contains a hyphen.

In place of any space in the share name, type: %20

You cannot type spaces as part of the share name when connecting.

The name of the "share" (the shared disk, volume, or directory) must be specified.

"ServerName" may be an IP address or DNS name.

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(In fact, it turned out that only SMB was enabled on the iMac 21.5″. Any further errors should take you straight to Console’s logs to see what is being recorded there. If that still does not work, try connecting using the short usernames in each case. Then on each, try connecting using the Finder’s Go/Connect to Server… menu command, pointing it at the afp:// addresses which you have recorded. If they already are, try turning off sharing using SMB. Check that files and folders are being shared using AFP. Next, open the Sharing pane on each, ensure that File Sharing is enabled, and click on its Options… button. This should verify that their network connections are sound, and they are able to share files. What is wrong?Ī Before going any further, make a note of the IP address of each, and using Network Utility, ping each from the other two. But for some strange reason when I try to do the same from either the mini or the iMac 27″ to the 21.5″, after a few seconds I am told that the connection has failed.

My old Mac mini and iMac 27″ can see one another fine and connect, and my iMac 21.5″ can connect to them. Q I have three Macs running OS X 10.11.2 here, all networked together, and all with file sharing enabled in their Sharing pane.

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