OSX 10.6.8-Win 7 Sharing Anomaly

gisxer

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I’m having some really strange problems accessing a Windows 7 share from my mac. I use machine running Win7 as a media server. I have all the media folders shared on the network (ie all the machines mac and win7 are all on the same workgroup). Other Win7 machines see all the files and folders just fine. When I access the shared win7 folders from my mac using smb://[ip address]/[share name] connects just fine. But the contents are incomplete.
Say I have 200 folders with movies in them and 20 movies in the root directory, only 180 folders and 15 movies in the root are visible in finder. And even weirder, the numbers change. At the bottom of the finder window it reads ‘195 items, xx.x GB available’. But after a few minutes the number if items changes. ‘177 items…’, ‘163 items…’,’181 items…’ it goes up and down and never shows the total number of folders and files.
I’ve searched a while for some explanation or workaround, I decided to post the question here and not in a windows forum because other windows machines on my network don’t have any issues with the shares. Any help would be much appreciated
 
How are you sharing on the Windows 7 machine? Are you using the propriety Windows 7 HomeGroup?
 
Nope. i've found the HomeGroup functionality to be a little temperamental. i'm sharing it directly from the properties, security tab with 'Everyone'
 
In the Windows 7 machine go to the Control Panel follow the steps in the blog post How to Share Windows 7 Files With OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Make sure you are using the correct WorkGroup on the Mac that the windows 7 is using. Plus read the tip in the Apple Discussion Snow Leopard 10.6.4 not showing Windows 7 Machines on Finder's Shared.

Lastly make sure you are using the same Time Sever on all these computers in your network.

One more question, are you using 'connect to server's smb or the Finder way of connecting to the Windows 7 shares.


One final thing, read the tip in the MacWindows tip TIP: Reader edits config file (/etc/hosts) to fix Snow Leopard SMB file sharing issue. It might help.
 
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