Alternative Methods of Sharing Folders in Windows?

Alternative Methods of Sharing Folders in Windows?

Hey guys. I'm running Windows 7 and as of now I simply share folders as one usually does in Windows. I then have a MacBook with Leopard (Now Snow Leopard) which I use to connect to my computer to mount the shares by going to Finder, then CMD + K and typing smb://BlaenkPC (The name of my PC) into the address box. This consequently connects to my computer and mounts all of the shares.

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"Wow, this is almost EXACTLY the same problem I have, except I sleep my PC occasionally instead of the mac (which always stays on).

For the time being, I have verified that it is an SMB problem, as I installed a trial version of ExtremeZ-IP on my windows system, which lets you share your windows 7 folders using AFP. Now, I can sleep my windows PC when I'm not using it, and wake it without having to eject the shares on the mac all the time.

I had like 10 umount processes running in Activity Monitor at one point do to the inability to unmount stuck windows shares using sudo umount -f /Volumes/(share) . It would just hang in the terminal window, and nothing would be accomplished. I couldnt even kill the hanging umount processes even by logging out. Reboot followed.

ExtremeZ-IP costs a good deal of cash though, so when the trial expires, its back to making sure I eject the windows share before sleeping my Win 7 system.

http://www.grouplogic.com/products/extremeZ-IP/"