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Originally Posted by smarkham604 (Post 318530)

OK-I tried that (I think I tried that a week or so ago, but with bad syntax) and got the same error-could not allocate memory

WHOA!!!! Hold the phone!!!

I initially dismissed this suggestion that I saw in several places (since I did not have any norton product on the XP box) to increase the IRPStackSize in the windows registry: http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;q177078&

But reading here: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4817 lead me to believe it was salient.

I did edit the registry, first with a value of 15 and it failed. I then upped the value to 20 and HALLELUIAH! I got success!

Most of the posts following this one seemed to ignore the advice posted here (maybe because it didn't help one of the posters). Don't ignore this! I had been struggling with this problem for days, basically since I got my new Mac Book Pro. I was sure the problem was with Windows, but none of the obvious (and not-so-obvious) fixes worked. This one did. I had to create IRPStackSize in my registry, and then input 20 as the decimal value. The problem simply disappeared and I am now able to access my PC from my MBP. Thanks, smarkhM604!

Still can't find alias to mount XP system to Mac

DrBob789456 wrote:
"Most of the posts following this one seemed to ignore the advice posted here (maybe because it didn't help one of the posters). Don't ignore this! I had been struggling with this problem for days, basically since I got my new Mac Book Pro. I was sure the problem was with Windows, but none of the obvious (and not-so-obvious) fixes worked. This one did. I had to create IRPStackSize in my registry, and then input 20 as the decimal value. The problem simply disappeared and I am now able to access my PC from my MBP. Thanks, smarkhM604!"

Sorry, but I have tried this, and this too, fails, even with a setting of 25 and 30!

Let's go back a step here. The following "tip" (creating an inetloc file) used to work, then one day like the "missing alias" it, too, failed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>URL</key>
<string>smb://workgroup;<login>@<IP address>/C</string>
</dict>
</plist>

And keep in mind that I can access the Mac from the XP Pro system. Nothing has changed with regards to my Linksys Router.

I still can't figure out why the Mac recognizes that the laptop is out there (it shows up in the Network list) but won't connect to it.

Thanks.

Hi people,
I have MBPro Tiger, old G4 Panther ans PC laptop running Vista Basic. After a few weeks I got stuck with this problem - drove me nuts. Eventually due to a software problem on the PC laptop I decided to reinstall Windows from the recovery tool. It wiped the slate clean to my horror and I had to reinstall everything.

BUT, my network was up and running again :) And better than before with wired and wireless machines seeing each other. So reinstall Windows everybody!

Re: Same problem, but with Windows 2003 Server

I wish it were as simple as reinstalling Windows. I recently reinstalled Windows XP on one of my two laptops and I still have that problem. I also just upgraded to Leopard - and I still have that problem.

I'm pretty convinced the problem is with Windows, but all the tips and tricks posted here no longer work.

Is there no definitive fix for this?

I can't believe there is no real answer to this problem.
no clearing of keychains, turning off/on apple talk,turning off firewalls,restarting helps. I don't understand why the alias shares can be seen in the network after the restarts, or why you can't delete them. If anyone has a clear fix please post it here.
Thanks
Cindy

The Fix for the Alias Problem

Heres how..

On the PC:

Go to the "my computer" window.
Right click on the Shared Documents folder.
Select sharing and security.
If sharing is not enabled run the wizard to turn it on - you don't need to disconnect anything.
If it is enabled make sure share this folder on the network is checked.
Anything dragged into this folder is shared.

Open the control panel.
Open windows firewall.
Under "exceptions" make sure file and printer sharing is checked.

Still in control panel - click on system.
Select the computer name tag.
The name and workgroup name you type in on the mac are here - and can be changed here.

On the mac:

Open a finder window.
Click the network icon in the sidebar.
Enter your workgroup name and user name and password if you have one.
Select the folder to share or press return.
The shared folder should appear in the sidebar next to a network icon.

Enabling the guest account in the PC's user accounts control panel allows you to log in as "guest" with a blank password.

Tis done....