FoxBoom!

In Mac OS, if you’re trying to mount a shared folder from a Windows Vista machine and you see “The volume ‘whatever’ could not be mounted.” then it could be that you haven’t assigned any guest permissions on that folder. In Vista, right-click on that folder and select “Share…”, then in the “Choose people” combo, pick “Guest” and add ‘em.

If you’ve mounted the folder, but when you try to copy a file into it you see “You may need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer to change the item names ‘whatever’.” then you might not have actually entered your real username. In Vista, right-click on the folder and select “Properties…”, then click the “Security” tab. In the “Group or user names” list, look for your Windows account name; the username you need to enter when you mount the folder is in brackets after your name. So, in the list, if you see “AdminVixen (VIXENBOX\fox)” and your Windows account name is “AdminVixen” then your username when you mount the folder is “VIXENBOX\fox”.

And once, I mounted the folder but files I copied into it disappeared immediately. I suspect I put the wrong password in, but I’m not sure.

Also, if you want to install a VNC server on your Vista machine, UltraVNC works a treat for me. RealVNC doesn’t.

AND NOW YOU KNOW.