Eric Fickes » pc http://ericfickes.com Design minded Internet Programmer Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:14:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A volume failed to mount (Error code -6602) http://ericfickes.com/2009/01/a-volume-failed-to-mount-error-code-6602/ http://ericfickes.com/2009/01/a-volume-failed-to-mount-error-code-6602/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:57:41 +0000 Eric Fickes http://ericfickes.com/?p=374 Continue reading →]]> 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

  1. Open Windows Explorer ( Win+E  or  double click My Computer )
  2. Click Tools > Folder Options
  3. Click the View Tab
  4. Scroll down to the bottom, and uncheck “Use simple file sharing (Recommended)”
  5. Then retry mounting the share on OSX
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