If you have installed Apple’s latest OS X Mavericks on your Mac and on the other side have a PC running Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating system, and now want to share OS X Mavericks files with Windows 8.1 then you are at the right place to find the help. Here we’ve compiled step by step instructions that can enable file sharing between OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1. So, continue after the break to get access to the whole article to build a connection between computer running OS X Mavericks and a PC running Windows 8.1 to share files.

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• Make sure both your Mac and PC are on same Wireless or LAN network.
• This guide is written for Windows 8 and OS X Mavericks 10.9.

Let’s talk about the steps to enable file sharing between PC (Windows 8.1) and Mac (OS X Mavericks)…

Enable File Sharing Between OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1

Note: Steps are same for both Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.

First do the following steps on Mac OS X Mavericks. Create a new user for file sharing purpose.

Step-1

Press cmd+space keys from keyboard and type users & Groups in Spotlight

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Click on Apple menu and select System Preference > Sharing icon.
Select “Users & Groups” in search results.

Step-2

Click on this lock icon, enter admin password.

Step-3

Click on + sign to add a new user.

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Fill the form with the details as shown below then click Create User button.

Setup file sharing

Step-4

Now we are going to enable file sharing option in OS X Mavericks so we can access folders from Windows 8.1.

Press cmd+space keys from keyboard and type file sharing in Spotlight

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Click on Apple menu and select System Preference > Sharing icon.
Select “File Sharing” in results

Step-5

On sharing window select the File Sharing check-box, an IP address will be assigned. Note down this IP address.

Step-6

Click on Options... button, click on Share file using SMB check-box and then select username (that created in first steps), enter user password and click OK and Done buttons.

Step-7

Click on “+” icon under “Shared folders” section and select a OS X folder that you want to share with Windows 8.1.

Note: You should remove all unwanted folders from this sharing list, because all folders that are listed in this section will be available to user on PC after sharing.

Step-8

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Click on + icon under Users section and select the user windows8 that we have created in first steps. After selecting user, set folder permissions for the user to Read & Write as shown below.

All done on Mac, now close this window and go to your PC.

Steps on Windows 8.1

Following steps you need to do on Windows 8 to access OS X shared files.

Press Windows+R keys from keyboard and type the IP address of your Mac that your note down in step-5 and hit enter.

Windows will ask for the username and password Type the username and password that we have created in step-3.

After entering correct username and password your will see the folders that you have share with Windows.

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After completing the file sharing purpose, remember to disable sharing especially when shared with any other person. That’s it! You have successfully shared files between OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1.

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