{"id":163,"date":"2012-02-19T02:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:38:50","slug":"how-to-transfer-files-from-mac-to-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/how-to-transfer-files-from-mac-to-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to transfer files from Mac to PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a Mac user and you are going to get a Windows. There must be some files on Mac like songs, photos, document, data, videos that you want to transfer to Mac. If your PC and Mac are in the same Local network, you can use \u201cSamba Support\u201d to do the job easily.<\/p>\n

Samba (SMB) is a separate sharing option within OS X\u2019s File Sharing panel; you can follow these steps to enable the SMB on your Mac.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Launch \u201cSystem Preferences\u201d and click on \u201cSharing\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Click the checkbox next to \u201cFile Sharing\u201d to enable it<\/li>\n
  3. Once File Sharing is turned on, select it and then click on the \u201cOptions\u2026\u201d button<\/li>\n
  4. Click the check box next to \u201cShare files and folders using SMB (Windows)\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Now click on the checkbox next to the user accounts you want to share or access from Windows \u2013 when you click to enable SMB sharing on a user account, you will be asked for that users password. Click on \u201cDone\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    After you turn the SMB, you can now connect from your PC to the Mac. If you already know the Macs IP address you can pass this first part of this and go directly to the Windows PC to access the shared users directory.<\/p>\n

    Connect from your PC to the Mac File Share<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Back at the \u2018Sharing\u201d 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<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    1. From the PC connecting to the Mac:
    \n2. Go to the Start menu and choose \u201cRun\u201d or hit Control+R from the Windows desktop
    \n3. Enter the IP address of the Mac in the format of \\\\192.168.1.9\\ and choose \u201cOK\u201d
    \n4. Enter the shared Mac OS X users login and password and click on \u201cOK\u201d
    \n5. Access to the shared Mac directory and user files appear as any other folder within Windows. You\u2019re free to copy or access individual files, or perform more substantial tasks like transferring an iTunes library from a PC to a Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    What about the .DS_Store files<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

    Depending on the Windows PC settings, you might see a bunch of .DS_Store files on the Mac file system. These are normal but if you\u2019re peeved by them, you can disable .DS_Store files by entering the following defaults write command in OS X\u2019s Terminal:<\/p>\n

    defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true<\/p>\n

    If you want them back, just switch that to \u2018false\u2019 at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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