Yesterday morning I started work as usual as ran into a problem mounting one of the shares from my XP PRO machine on my Macbook Pro. Obviously the first question I asked was WTF? Everything worked yesterday, and not today.
I did some Googling and found mention about opening some UDP ports, but my TCP/IP settings currently has all ports open, so that didn’t help. Then just for giggles I decided to turn off simple file sharing. That fixed it!
So if you receive the message “A volume failed to mount”, and then another one with “Error code -6602″ in it, you should check your PC’s file sharing settings. You would do this by following these steps.
How to disable simple file sharing on XP
- Open Windows Explorer ( Win+E or double click My Computer )
- Click Tools > Folder Options
- Click the View Tab
- Scroll down to the bottom, and uncheck “Use simple file sharing (Recommended)”
- Then retry mounting the share on OSX
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- The operation could not be completed. ( Error code -6602 )
Tags: -6602, file sharing, mount, osx, osx error code, osx to pc networking, pc, shared folder, simple file sharing, volume, xp
Thank you for this. This and other expert threads talk over my head.
But I was able to connect from a MacBook to an XP box with a Go>Connect to Server using smp://xx.x.x.x only after creating an account on the XP box that matched the current user name on the MacBook. Otherwise it wouldn't connect with an account set up with a diff. name and password. After turning off simple file sharing and setting up a shared folder on the XP box, of course. FJ
@FJ1 – Sweet! Glad this helped somebody out. If you have access to the XP administrator account, you can always hit the built in shares like so "smb://x.x.x.x/C$", just be ready to enter the user / pswd.
Another tip, command + K is the shortcut for the 'Connect to Server' dialog box.
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Another solution to this problem – My hard drive was completely full (0kb remaining) – which is the reason I was trying to connect to the share (to dump some data) – made some space (just closed firefox – which is a resource hog) and was able to connect.
I have just recently had this issue with connecting my Mac to my PC. This has worked perhaps up to 3 months ago. I had to reinstall XP (drive failed). Now I can’t connect to the PC from the MAc. I can interestingly use the remote logon from the mac to the PC. I can from the PC connect to the Mac.
This suggest that Apple has screwed something up and have not told anyone they screwed up!!!!!!
I don’t know how much longer I can support Apple, They have become worse, it that’s possible then MS. Wow!!
Apple is definitely stirring some things up right now. Good or bad, it’s a fun ride on the iDrama train.