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How to connect to a Windows PC from a Mac OS X terminal

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I have some Windows PCs on my network. I have Mac OS X. I try to access some Windows PCs in the network to read and write files. In OS X Finder, I see the computer_name and I can connect as Guest. But in the terminal, how can I do that? I tried , but it says "connection refused". I tried (a compute…

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ssh computer_name

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Fix for: How to connect to a Windows PC from a Mac OS X terminal

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(Side note: If “ssh asdfasdf” says “Connection refused” rather than some variant of “unknown hostname”, then your ISP is doing the mildly nasty thing of “DNS redirection” which is intended to serve you a search page (to their profit) when you mistyp…

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