dude wtf? Straight to the point? No ads, no nonsense? Are you for real? Such a guide in 2024? Wow, I've been following everything you've said and it just worked amazingly! Thank you so much! The moment everything worked, I liked the video and subscribed to the channel. I wish there were more channels like yours that speak directly without wasting time. Thanks again!!! Wow.. I still can't believe this....
I’m new to a Mac and had no idea how to get my important files from my windows to it. I was told to download the Migration Assistant, but it was not working at all. Your instructions were very clear and I have successfully moved the files I need! Thank you!
Thank you! I've used both Mac and PC for a long time now, but the way we do this connection changes often. The mapping feature was exactly what I needed. It wasn't there the last time I used Windows. Excellent video!
Thanks, this was super helpful. Other tutorials say you just have to turn on file sharing and then the Mac should appear in the PC's network locations. They all leave out the step mapping the network drive.
Ditto to what @jibbymcbeet said. With the network mapping shown I'll be able to get the setup completed. Other tutorials don't even mention the process at all.
Thank you. I've referenced this video a few times since I only have to do this once in a blue moon and I appreciate the simple straight forward information.
Wuauuu you're absolutely the best. I tried with 4 different videos. I was about ti give up but I decided to watch your video and give it a goal. Your video was the easiest and the best to set up everything!! Thank you so much for your amazing work!
Wow, I've been following everything you've said and it just worked amazingly! Thank you so much! The moment everything worked, I liked the video and subscribed to the channel. I wish there were more channels like yours that speak directly without wasting time. Thanks again!!! Wow.. I still can't believe this....
That was great. Thanks for the time in making that video. One thing that stumped me was my windows machine couldn't map the macbook drive....until I restarted the Mac. Then it worked perfectly. Hope this might help someone else.
I was struggling for getting them to work! Some years ago Mac & Win systems could "see" each other files in the network window, but with the most recent updates, not anymore. This worked perfectly!
Worked! Fantastic!!! I have an old 2011 iMac running Monterey and while the interface is a little different it's the same principles and it just worked and I'm so grateful because I use the iMac to create video but like to move it to Camtasia on my PC to edit. Thank you!!
Just wanted to give a shout out of THANKS to you. Appreciate the tutorial and was able to finally set up sharing between my Mac and Windows 11 PC... Cheers m8!
I was looking for specific advice and I found it! I don't know if anything else will be needed on this channel, but I'm so grateful that I subscribed as a gesture of thanks just to thank you for such a great working solution!
thank you so much, have been fideling with file sharing for what must been an hour. With cables and network sharing in different configurations. This is the video that finally solved it.
If you have problem with wrong password, it's not always problem with pass but also with login. In mac on sharing window right click on user, click information, look at the "where" section, there is how you should write your user as login in windows.
Worked like charm once I disabled the Mac firewall on Sonoma. That seemed to be blocking the incoming connection from windows. Enabling the firewall again doesn’t seem to block the connection. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your help. I have come back to this a few times now. Pretty much every few weeks the connection breaks (address changes). Do you know of a way to stop this?
Glad it helped. Sometimes when you shut your computers down ip addresses are re-allocated when they start up again. So really if this happens then you have to go in and put the new IP address in. Not sure of a way to avoid this.
Thanks for your reply. I think I will have to figure out another way. It's literally every time I need to transfer a document so it gets frustrating :)@@Touchtechnologyreview
Wow......Man Thank You so much. I have followed all the steps you outlined and I have been able to send documents "FROM MY PC TO MY MAC". However, I couldn't reciprocate sending files "FROM MY MAC TO MY PC" using the same steps you outlined in this video. Please can you help figure out what I'm missing out in this whole file transfer process? Your input would be very much appreciated. Thank You So much man!!!! You are a life saver fr!!!!!1
Great to hear. Glad the tutorial was helpful! I have created another tutorial showing you how to set up the file sharing from the Mac. It creates a share folder on the Mac which you can drag files into which will then appear on the connected Windows machine... Here is a link to the tutorial ua-cam.com/video/UogQu1S0p2Y/v-deo.html
Hello, thanks for this great tutorial video. Could you please help me with the following: I use to work with certain files, mostly in MacBook. These files are changed on daily bases. From time to time I have to travel and then I take with me a W11 laptop where I use the files I previously copy one by one from my MacBook. Wile working on the W11 laptop the work files get modified and once back home I have to copy them back to the MacBook. What could I do to share and sync my work wiles and keep them updated in both devices? Thank you very much in advance for any suggestion. Kind Regards.
It depends on what type of files. If they are word and excel files. You can use office 365 and save them to the cloud so that both computers are accessing the same files. Or you can use Google Docs and Sheets in the same way. Otherwise you would have to keep doing what you are doing right now which involves dragging the source file from one computer to another.
I didn’t understood why you have written "WINDOWS", when you connected to the MAC folder, which you have created before. It didn’t work for me. But it worked to write "MAC" after the IP address(or other name, given to the folder on Mac). Nevertheless, it was a great tutorial. Thanks!
Yeah i didnt get y you typed WINDOWS when the actual share file created was mac…what is the WINDOWS file you typed after the ip address, could u please explain how
This is such a straightforward tutorial, thank you so much! The first time I followed this the file share worked with no problem, however now that I have returned to my computer to access the folder, it has requested my password again and although I entered the same password that worked last time (the same password I use to make any changes to the folder on my Mac), it says "The specified network password is not correct." Has anyone else experienced this issue and do you have any advice on how I might fix it? I've even tried changing the password on my Mac for my account to no avail.
Go to file sharing select the user and at the bottom left click on "Options". There should be a popul list of users that you need to turn on and set a password for. Use that username and that password you set!
can't get this or bluetooth file transfer to work, any ideas? looks like my only option is to pay the $100 license fee for sharemouse because that program's drag and drop across devices works :/
Are both computers connected to the same WIFI network? If so and you can't get it to work have a go with my other tutorial which shows you how to connect to the Windows Machine from a Mac.
Thanks for the help, you're a life safer! Recently got a new PC with 4TB ssd, that doesn't overcharge like Apple does for storage space, so trying to get all my stuff from my iMac moved over.
So Mac OS doesn't share a folder via DNS name? Pointing to the IP address is flawed because there's no guarantee that the DHCP server will always assign the same IP to that device, especially on a large LAN where mobile devices constantly come and go. I always use the DNS name, or set a static IP, possibly a MAC address to IP reservation, if possible.
In mac on sharing window right click on user, click information, look at the "where" section, there is how you should write your user as login in windows.
@@Plachu This was the fix, thank you! For everyone else who is confused, the login credentials for your username is EXACTLY how it is shown in the Sharing Tab, under users = the name of your account is how it should be input in the credentials for the username section, not your email address for logging in to the mac.
Straight to the point, just confused with the WINDOWS folder you created part. I did enter the SMB address and the folder I want to share and voila I have access now. Thanks!
How did you create the folder name which shows Windows? cause i have done everything but when i connect it says window cannot connect. Check the spelling of the name. otherwise, there might be a problem with my network
Hello sir! please help me I'm stuck on the last step after I put the IP address, so what username and password we do pu it on the next step? they keep saying incorrect password. Please answer
Everything was super clear in the video, but couldn’t get how u used the name WINDOWS when the actual share folder u created was MAC..can u pls explain what was the WINDOWS u meant there
lets say for instance the footage i want to edit are on my windows pc and my project files are on the mac, can I import directly from the network folder?
Yes you can try it but you might find it a bit laggy over the network. See how it goes, if too slow then you are better off transferring the source video files.
OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH, APPLE INSTRUCTIONS WEREN'T WORKING, THEY SAID NOTHING ABOUT "MAP NETWORK DRIVE", INSTEAD I WAS TRYING TO GET THE NETWORK TO FIND THE MAC IT WOULDN"T SHOW UP! Thank you so much.
Hoping i can get a quick tip here, my connection dropped after my mac went to sleep, now it's back up but the connection is still dropped. Network address in file sharing remains the same. Can't get access to it again, any idea what it might be?
Sometimes after a computer goes to sleep or if restarted the IP address that it previously held can be taken by a new device that is added to the network. If this happens you have to go in and and check the IP address again and alter as needed when you are logging in.
dude wtf? Straight to the point? No ads, no nonsense? Are you for real? Such a guide in 2024? Wow, I've been following everything you've said and it just worked amazingly! Thank you so much! The moment everything worked, I liked the video and subscribed to the channel. I wish there were more channels like yours that speak directly without wasting time. Thanks again!!! Wow.. I still can't believe this....
Awesome to hear that. Glad it worked and that you found my video straight to the point and helpful!
Man, I thought the same thing. I couldn’t imagine a better tutorial!
I’m new to a Mac and had no idea how to get my important files from my windows to it. I was told to download the Migration Assistant, but it was not working at all.
Your instructions were very clear and I have successfully moved the files I need! Thank you!
Thank you! I've used both Mac and PC for a long time now, but the way we do this connection changes often. The mapping feature was exactly what I needed. It wasn't there the last time I used Windows. Excellent video!
Great, Glad you found the video helpful!
Thanks! Agree with the previous comments on straight to the point and helpful.
Thanks so much. Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for commenting and for the super, greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for the tutorial, straight to the point and simple to follow, needed this for file sharing for school. Awesome!!
Thanks, this was super helpful. Other tutorials say you just have to turn on file sharing and then the Mac should appear in the PC's network locations. They all leave out the step mapping the network drive.
Yes I found this to be an essential step.
Ditto to what @jibbymcbeet said. With the network mapping shown I'll be able to get the setup completed. Other tutorials don't even mention the process at all.
Still shocked that this worked the first time, exactly as described. Thanks so much for this perfect tutorial.
Great to hear. Thanks for checking out the video!
Thank you. I've referenced this video a few times since I only have to do this once in a blue moon and I appreciate the simple straight forward information.
FINALLY! couldn't find any decent guide about this, type of very much! I'll like it and subscribe
Great, glad you found it helpful!
Wuauuu you're absolutely the best. I tried with 4 different videos. I was about ti give up but I decided to watch your video and give it a goal. Your video was the easiest and the best to set up everything!! Thank you so much for your amazing work!
That worked perfectly on windows 10 too. Thank you so much for that!!!
You're welcome!
Wow, I've been following everything you've said and it just worked amazingly! Thank you so much! The moment everything worked, I liked the video and subscribed to the channel. I wish there were more channels like yours that speak directly without wasting time. Thanks again!!! Wow.. I still can't believe this....
So pleased to hear that it worked for you. Thanks for watching and for the awesome feedback!
Cheers brother! Helped me..I was searching for this long.
That was great. Thanks for the time in making that video. One thing that stumped me was my windows machine couldn't map the macbook drive....until I restarted the Mac. Then it worked perfectly. Hope this might help someone else.
Great glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for the tip. It is amazing how many problems a basic restart can solve.
I was struggling for getting them to work! Some years ago Mac & Win systems could "see" each other files in the network window, but with the most recent updates, not anymore. This worked perfectly!
Fantastic guide! Clear, concise, efficient - subscribed!
Awesome, thank you!
Worked! Fantastic!!! I have an old 2011 iMac running Monterey and while the interface is a little different it's the same principles and it just worked and I'm so grateful because I use the iMac to create video but like to move it to Camtasia on my PC to edit. Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Works great TY ! This is the ultimate networking power, what a time to be alive lol
Great to hear! Yeah YT is the awesome!
Just wanted to give a shout out of THANKS to you. Appreciate the tutorial and was able to finally set up sharing between my Mac and Windows 11 PC... Cheers m8!
Great to hear! You are very welcome!
I was looking for specific advice and I found it! I don't know if anything else will be needed on this channel, but I'm so grateful that I subscribed as a gesture of thanks just to thank you for such a great working solution!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for checking out the video and for the sub!
best video on this, everything was super thorough and everything worked after just watching and following the instructions on the vid! ~ Thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for checking out the video!
thank you so much, have been fideling with file sharing for what must been an hour. With cables and network sharing in different configurations. This is the video that finally solved it.
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
Fastest tut I’ve had. Sheesh! Unreal thank you!
@@MasterTheSound1 You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching
Youre a dude!!! This worked for me. Many thanks!!!
Great to hear! Thanks for checking out the video!
Thanks for your help. It worked amazingly. It was harder than I thought it would be, but I did it.
Great job!
If you have problem with wrong password, it's not always problem with pass but also with login. In mac on sharing window right click on user, click information, look at the "where" section, there is how you should write your user as login in windows.
The migration didn't work and this was so helpful, thank you
This is a game changer thank you!!
Worked perfectly fine! Thanks a lot.
Great to hear!
Excellent instructions, straight to the point. Thank you very much.
Great to hear. Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching!
Great - well done. Straight to the point excellent!!
Thanks so much!
Thank you for the on-point explanation that saved me quite some time 😄
Glad it helped! You are very welcome!
thankyou so much man its the only video that works and helped thanks
you are very welcome. Glad it worked well for you and thanks for watching!
Worked perfectly thank you for taking the time to make this video!
You're welcome!
It worked! Thank you for your help!
You are very welcome!
Thank you so much. I have been trying to do this for a while and you made it Soooo easy! Thank you again.
You are so welcome! Thanks for checking out the video!
Worked like charm once I disabled the Mac firewall on Sonoma. That seemed to be blocking the incoming connection from windows. Enabling the firewall again doesn’t seem to block the connection. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the added info! Glad it worked.
DOes not work with external drives
Thank you for your help. I have come back to this a few times now. Pretty much every few weeks the connection breaks (address changes). Do you know of a way to stop this?
Glad it helped. Sometimes when you shut your computers down ip addresses are re-allocated when they start up again. So really if this happens then you have to go in and put the new IP address in. Not sure of a way to avoid this.
Thanks for your reply. I think I will have to figure out another way. It's literally every time I need to transfer a document so it gets frustrating :)@@Touchtechnologyreview
you can definitely avoid this by putting a domain name instead
DAMN BRO! LOVE YOU!
Thanks BRO! 👍
Man, this saved my life, thanks a lot for this video
Wow......Man Thank You so much. I have followed all the steps you outlined and I have been able to send documents "FROM MY PC TO MY MAC". However, I couldn't reciprocate sending files "FROM MY MAC TO MY PC" using the same steps you outlined in this video. Please can you help figure out what I'm missing out in this whole file transfer process? Your input would be very much appreciated. Thank You So much man!!!! You are a life saver fr!!!!!1
Great to hear. Glad the tutorial was helpful! I have created another tutorial showing you how to set up the file sharing from the Mac. It creates a share folder on the Mac which you can drag files into which will then appear on the connected Windows machine... Here is a link to the tutorial ua-cam.com/video/UogQu1S0p2Y/v-deo.html
@@Touchtechnologyreview Thank You So much broo. It has worked finally. God bless you
@@victordavid4745 Great to hear. You are very welcome!
Very helpful👏
Great to hear. Thanks for checking out the video!
Thanks. I'm also wondering how to share an external drive between OSX and win11 on my local network?
Excellent Video..
Many thanks!
this is a gamechanger, thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Thx! worked perfectly! January 2024, with my macOS Sonoma 14.3 and my Windows 11
Worked! Still on Windows 10 and I didn't need to do step 2 (before network and sharing control panel)
Awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a time saver! You get a subscribe for that.
Glad it helped! Thanks for checking out the video and for the sub!
Brilliant mate everything worked flawlessly, thank you good sir
Great to hear! Thanks for checking out the video!
Grateful! So helpful and easy to follow!
You are most welcome! Glad it was helpful!
@@Touchtechnologyreview Is there a way for the remote drivers to reconnect after rebooting or just have to repeat these steps on every reboot? Thanks
great stuff! It worked!
Great to hear!
Just the video I needed, thank you
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching!
I put my password correctly but it always ends up saying its incorrect
Same problem here how did you solve it please
Same problem here
same here, have u fixed it yet?? lmk
Use whoami command for the correct username
ran into this problem, making sure i chose the right account when under the file sharing options on mac solved the issue for me
Amazing video, straight to the point. Suscribed
Thanks so much. Greatly appreciated!
thanks buddy! it's really helpful videos!
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching!
excellent tutorial, it helped me. Now my two computers can share files, wow.
Glad it helped!
Hello, thanks for this great tutorial video. Could you please help me with the following: I use to work with certain files, mostly in MacBook. These files are changed on daily bases. From time to time I have to travel and then I take with me a W11 laptop where I use the files I previously copy one by one from my MacBook. Wile working on the W11 laptop the work files get modified and once back home I have to copy them back to the MacBook. What could I do to share and sync my work wiles and keep them updated in both devices? Thank you very much in advance for any suggestion. Kind Regards.
It depends on what type of files. If they are word and excel files. You can use office 365 and save them to the cloud so that both computers are accessing the same files. Or you can use Google Docs and Sheets in the same way. Otherwise you would have to keep doing what you are doing right now which involves dragging the source file from one computer to another.
Thank you very much for your kind reply and suggestion. @@Touchtechnologyreview
I didn’t understood why you have written "WINDOWS", when you connected to the MAC folder, which you have created before. It didn’t work for me. But it worked to write "MAC" after the IP address(or other name, given to the folder on Mac). Nevertheless, it was a great tutorial. Thanks!
Great glad you liked the video.
Yeah i didnt get y you typed WINDOWS when the actual share file created was mac…what is the WINDOWS file you typed after the ip address, could u please explain how
This is such a straightforward tutorial, thank you so much! The first time I followed this the file share worked with no problem, however now that I have returned to my computer to access the folder, it has requested my password again and although I entered the same password that worked last time (the same password I use to make any changes to the folder on my Mac), it says "The specified network password is not correct." Has anyone else experienced this issue and do you have any advice on how I might fix it? I've even tried changing the password on my Mac for my account to no avail.
Go to file sharing select the user and at the bottom left click on "Options". There should be a popul list of users that you need to turn on and set a password for. Use that username and that password you set!
can't get this or bluetooth file transfer to work, any ideas? looks like my only option is to pay the $100 license fee for sharemouse because that program's drag and drop across devices works :/
Are both computers connected to the same WIFI network? If so and you can't get it to work have a go with my other tutorial which shows you how to connect to the Windows Machine from a Mac.
@@Touchtechnologyreview yeah they are, it's so weird... but I'll check the other vid then, thank you!
Worked like a champ!
Great to hear!
Thanks for the help, you're a life safer! Recently got a new PC with 4TB ssd, that doesn't overcharge like Apple does for storage space, so trying to get all my stuff from my iMac moved over.
Great, Glad you found the video helpful! Enjoy the new computer!
So Mac OS doesn't share a folder via DNS name? Pointing to the IP address is flawed because there's no guarantee that the DHCP server will always assign the same IP to that device, especially on a large LAN where mobile devices constantly come and go. I always use the DNS name, or set a static IP, possibly a MAC address to IP reservation, if possible.
Why does my Mac say system preferences and not system settings. Can’t find this window
I keep putting in the password for my Mac account and keep getting a incorrect password message. I have put in so many different passwords
same here
me too, have u figured out the cause yet, lmk !! i need help
In mac on sharing window right click on user, click information, look at the "where" section, there is how you should write your user as login in windows.
@@Plachu This was the fix, thank you! For everyone else who is confused, the login credentials for your username is EXACTLY how it is shown in the Sharing Tab, under users = the name of your account is how it should be input in the credentials for the username section, not your email address for logging in to the mac.
This was wll explained and practical. Thanks a lot man
Great to hear that. You are very welcome!
Straight to the point, just confused with the WINDOWS folder you created part. I did enter the SMB address and the folder I want to share and voila I have access now. Thanks!
Great to hear. You are very welcome!
Thank you but i have no permissions to read or edit directory both on Mac and Pc. Why?
How did you create the folder name which shows Windows? cause i have done everything but when i connect it says window cannot connect. Check the spelling of the name. otherwise, there might be a problem with my network
Great video
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
immensely helpful! thanks
Hello sir! please help me I'm stuck on the last step after I put the IP address, so what username and password we do pu it on the next step? they keep saying incorrect password. Please answer
A legend and a gentleman.
Thanks so much. Greatly appreciated!
What will be the transfer speed if we have large size files?
Thank you! Great tutorial which worked perfectly for me.
You're welcome!
Video was priceless bro! No flaws 🤟🏽 thank you
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful! Appreciate the great feedback!
thank you so soo much.. 10/10 explanation and easy to understand!
You're very welcome! Glad you found the video helpful and easy to follow!
Thanks mate, simple and sweet.
You are welcome. Thanks for checking out the video 👍
THANK YOU! So easy to follow and worked like a charm!
You are most welcome! Glad to hear the video was helpful! Thanks watching.
Your instructions are perfectly detailed and this worked easily for me. Thank you SO much!!!
You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful!
Everything was super clear in the video, but couldn’t get how u used the name WINDOWS when the actual share folder u created was MAC..can u pls explain what was the WINDOWS u meant there
Thank you! This is very helpful!
Great to hear that. You are very welcome!
Thank you it worked.
Glad it helped
lets say for instance the footage i want to edit are on my windows pc and my project files are on the mac, can I import directly from the network folder?
Yes you can try it but you might find it a bit laggy over the network. See how it goes, if too slow then you are better off transferring the source video files.
OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH, APPLE INSTRUCTIONS WEREN'T WORKING, THEY SAID NOTHING ABOUT "MAP NETWORK DRIVE", INSTEAD I WAS TRYING TO GET THE NETWORK TO FIND THE MAC IT WOULDN"T SHOW UP!
Thank you so much.
You are very welcome. Glad you found the video helpful!
Hi, Can we share mac folder through internet (anywhere in the world).
Yes this can be done using remote access. I am about to do a tutorial on the topic.
@@Touchtechnologyreview Waiting for that’ Thanks in Advance
thank you i had successfully connect my mac with my windows😊
Great 👍
Thank you so much, brother! You're a lifesaver! Major respect!
You are very welcome. Glad you found the video helpful!
worked out great! thanks mate!!
Great to hear.
wow, extremely helpful and straight to the point! thank you very much
You are most welcome!
Awesome - Worked great - thanks!
You're welcome!
Great! it works Thanks 👍🏽
Great to hear!
Useful. Worked. Thanks
Glad it helped
Thank You So Much !! this helped me
You're welcome!
The Mac username when login in or the one in the terminal ?
Enter the username and password that you use to login to the mac.
Thanks man you're great!
You're welcome! Thanks for checking out the video!
why u make a folder called mac as a shared folder but on windows you connect to windows? am i missing somethhing here? thank you
Thank you so much! I have been fighting with this for hours!
Glad it helped!
Hoping i can get a quick tip here,
my connection dropped after my mac went to sleep, now it's back up but the connection is still dropped. Network address in file sharing remains the same. Can't get access to it again, any idea what it might be?
Sometimes after a computer goes to sleep or if restarted the IP address that it previously held can be taken by a new device that is added to the network. If this happens you have to go in and and check the IP address again and alter as needed when you are logging in.