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How can I share my external hard drive from desktop to mac?

I have a Desktop PC downstairs connected to my wireless network. I have an external hard drive connected to the PC. I was looking for instructions on how to access the external hard drive from my Mac. I searched the internet, but as you can imagine, I came up with 10 million things that I wasn't looking for. Any help would be awesome.

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  • Anon
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    You need to add it as a share and then from there you will be able to access it from the Mac by mapping a drive. When mapping the drive, it needs to start with:

    smb

    Search for file share and that will tell you how to enable the share.

  • 1 decade ago

    You can make a network. The make a "public" folder to share information.

    Good luck. =]

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