I have a Mac Pro, a Macbook Pro, Windows XP SP3 Desktop PC, and a Windows XP SP3 laptop. All computers will talk to each other on my network except the Mac Pro and Windows Desktop. The time settings are all the same, the firewalls are set to accept each other, and I have completed all updates. Nothing on the web seems to solve the problem. Is there a patch I can download for the Windows OS? 1 person needs an answerI do too

You forgot to give the text of any error messages or to describe what happens when you try. See the general OS X/Windows networking information below. On OS X, make sure you have File sharing ticked in System Preferences>Sharing. Click the Options button and select "Share files and folders using SMB ". Add shared directories as desired. You must create matching user accounts/passwords on both the Mac and Windows. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES . If you have XP Pro, go to Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab and uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing". If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop in XP (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm You will find the automatic logon options for OS X in System Preferences>Accounts. You also need to make sure you've correctly configured your firewalls on both machines to allow the Local Area Network as trusted. With Windows Firewall, setting File and Printer Sharing ON will take care of this for those machines and if you aren't running a third-party firewall or have an antivirus/security program with its own firewall component, then you're fine. With third-party firewalls, I usually configure the LAN allowance with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet. Refer to any third party security program's Help or user forums for how to properly configure its firewall. Do not run more than one firewall. DO NOT TURN OFF FIREWALLS; CONFIGURE THEM CORRECTLY. The OS X Firewall settings are in System Preferences>Security. Click the lock to make changes and click the Advanced button to make sure SMB Sharing is allowed. If you set it up in the Sharing module, it will be. Then share out your resources as desired on all machines.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!