If you are using both Mac and PC at your home or office and want to access Windows 7 Files on Mac OS X Lion, in this guide you will see how to do that. If you want to see the reverse method then i have already posted that how to access Mac OS X files from Windows 7.
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Note: Make sure both Windows 7 and OS X Lion computers are on same network.
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Steps on PC Windows 7
Step-1
Right-click con Computer icon, select Properties option
In the System Properties Windows, note down the
Computer name
and Workgroup name
Step-2
Now open Windows Explorer / My Computer, on the left-side click on Network. If the “network discovery and file sharing if turned off” You will see a yellow bar message
Click on the yellow message bar and select “Turn on network discovery and file sharing” option
Steps on Mac OS X Lion
Step-3
On Mac OS X Lion click on Apple icon and select “System Preferences”
Under “Internet & Wireless” section, click on “Network” icon
Click on “Advanced” button
Mac Os X Lion For Pc
Step-4
Select the “WINS” tab, type the Windows Workgroup name that you noted down in step-1, click OK and then Apply buttons.
Access Windows 7 folders from OS X Lion
Step-5
Press
cmd+K
from keyboard or from Mac home screen click on “Go” menu and select “Connect to Server”Step-6
In the “Server address” text box type the Windows 7 Computer Name that you have noted down in step-1.
Instead of computer name you can use the IP address as well. To find IP address of the Windows Computer: Press
Windows+R
keys from keyboard, type “cmd” and hit the enter key. In the Command Prompt windows type the command ipconfig
, locate the IP address and note it down.Use
smb://
before the computer name or IP address, e.g. smb://Computer-Name
or smb://192.168.2.15
When you type the Server Address, hit the “Connect” button
Step-7
Mac will prompt for Windows 7 user’s account name and password, type and hit the “Connect” button.
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/1/8/0/118045479/511276564.jpg)
Mac Os Lion On Pc
Step-8
In the next windows select the folder that you want to mount on Mac and hit the OK button
So you have successfully access Windows 7 files on OS X Lion. Everytime you open the Finder window on Mac you will see the mounted Windows 7 folder/volume on the left-side under Shared section.
Mount a specific Windows 7 partition on Mac OS X Lion
Suppose you want to mount
D
drive of Windows 7 on Mac, what you need to do is in step-6 type the server address like this![Mac os lion installer Mac os lion installer](/uploads/1/1/8/0/118045479/679152195.jpg)
smb://Computer-Name/D$
or smb://IP-Address/D$