These are normal but if you’re peeved by them, you can disable.
DS_Store files?ĭepending on the Windows PC settings, you might see a bunch of.
If you run into such a problem connecting to a NAS or SMB Windows share from OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you can forcibly use Samba1 with the cifs:// prefix like so: cifs://192.168.1.115 – this is not the case with Mac OS X Yosemite or other versions of MacOS and Mac OS X. Note that an issue with some versions of Mac OS X Mavericks causes smb:// to use Samba2 rather than Samba1, which may cause connection errors with some servers.
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)”.