Originally Posted by
Pelikal
Mixture, thanks.
FTP Access is enabled on the Mac. Still reckon it's some MS sh!te with Win7.
Windows basically requires some credentials to connect to itself or to others. There is no concept of "it doesn't require any credentials". Hence the 'guest' account, which if you enable it and set a blank password has the same effect of authenticating people without ostensibly providing the credentials.
Credentials on Windows are in the form <domain>\<userid> and they have a password associated to each user. <domain> in this case is either the name of a domain the computer is attached to, or the NetBIOS name of the machine itself if in a Workgroup.
All bets regarding connecting into a Windows PC are off if the firewall is going to block you though, so ensure that's off for the time being in order to ensure nothing's going to be silently dicking with your ability to troubleshoot this.
HTH.
Cheers
Mike.