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 )
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.
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