Enter the shared Mac OS X users login and password and click on “OK”Īccess to the shared Mac directory and user files appear as any other folder within Windows. Enter the IP address of the Mac in the format of \\192.168.1.9\ and choose “OK”. Go to the Start menu and choose “Run” or hit Control+R from the Windows desktop. From the Windows PC connecting to the Mac:. Back at the ‘Sharing” system preference panel, take note of your Macs IP address as seen below, discard the afp:// portion and pay attention to the numbers in the format of x.x.x.x. First you’ll get the Macs IP address that you need to connect to, then you’ll connect to that from Windows: With SMB and Windows File Sharing enabled, you can now connect to the Mac from any Windows PC. Connect to the Mac File Share from a Windows PC If you already know the Macs IP address you can skip this first part of this and go directly to the Windows PC to access the shared users directory. With SMB enabled, we now can connect from the Windows PC to the Mac. Now click on the checkbox next to the user accounts you want to share or access from Windows – when you click to enable SMB sharing on a user account, you will be asked for that users password. Click the check box next to “Share files and folders using SMB (Windows)”. Once File Sharing is turned on, select it and then click on the “Options…” button. Click the checkbox next to “File Sharing” to enable it. Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Sharing”. After Migration Assistant is done, quit Migration Assistant on both computers, then log in to the migrated account on your new Mac to see its files.Enable Mac to Windows File Sharing in Mac OS Xįirst you need to enable the Windows to Mac file sharing functionality, this is a simple preference toggle in Mac OS system settings on the Mac:. You might want to start in the evening and allow migration to complete overnight. Click Continue to start the transfer. Large transfers might need hours to complete, and might seem to pause occasionally.Replace: The account on your old Mac will replace the identically named account on your new Mac.Rename: The account on your old Mac will appear as an additional user on your new Mac, with a separate login and home folder.
In the example pictured here, Danny Rico is a user account. If an account on the new Mac has the same name, Migration Assistant asks whether to rename or replace: Before clicking Continue, learn what it means to transfer a user account.When ready, select the information to transfer. Migration Assistant now catalogs all of the content on your old Mac, and calculates how much storage space is used by your apps, user accounts, files, folders, and settings.