Good tutorial on sharing Mac folders with xp users in Mac 10.5.

I’m one of those who straddles the windows/mac os x fence.  Linux/FreeBSD are in there too, but that’s another matter entirely.

Network shares are a little clunky in Windows all by itself, but there’s a wrench thrown in when you get Mac in the mix.  Then add VMWare.  VMWare has a whole host/sharing scenario on its own, and I was under the impression that a share through VMWare might be exposed to the remainder of the network, but no go.

The direct share via Mac worked wonderfully.  Easy to activate through Settings panel, immdediate visibility on the network.  Sweet.

In working with clients, I’ve done my best to cover as many browser combinations as possible.  IE, Firefox, Safari grab the bulk of the space.  Although both Mac & Windows are in my arsenal, I’ve been checking now and then for Safari for Windows.  I installed it a while back, and it failed quite miserably–I saw fellow users’ complaints about nothing happening on an install.  But give up I did not.  Is that a form of insanity?  :O

Recently I gave it another shot.  Happiness abounds.  Excellent feel to the interface, plus there’s now a handy web developer plugin by default.  Way to go, Apple!!