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Set up file sharing on the Mac On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Sharing.

Open Sharing preferences for me Select the File Sharing checkbox, then click Options.

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In the Windows File Sharing list, select the checkbox next to the user account that will be used to share files with Windows users, enter the password for that user, then click OK.

Click Done. Choose View Network, select your active connection, then click Advanced.

Open Network preferences for me Click the WINS tab, then enter the workgroup name used by the Windows computer.

Windows computers normally use either WORKGROUP or MSHOME.) Click OK, then click Apply.

Provide the information Windows users need To connect to your Mac, Windows users need the network address for your Mac, and a user name and password to use to log in to your Mac.

To find your Mac computers network address, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Sharing, then select File Sharing.

The address appears below the File Sharing: On indicator, and looks similar to this example: smb:17.212.167.33.

Create an account on your Mac for each Windows user.

To create accounts, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Users Groups.

If you want to use an account that existed before you installed the latest version of macOS, you may need to reset the password for the account in Users Groups preferences.

Because the passwords of user accounts used for Windows sharing may be stored in a less secure manner, turn off the account when its not being used.

Before you turn off Windows sharing, turn off all the accounts you enabled.

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