[Ti] Airport Extreeme - file transfer

[Dennis Fazio]

--On May 14, 2005 05:27:29 PM +0300 "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" 
<hutley at geneva-link.ch> wrote:

> I wanted to transfer a file to a student's (Dell) laptop.
>
> I created a new Network, which he could see and connect to (computer to
> computer).
>
> But WHAT is the next step to actually send a file or connect to his laptop?

The wireless connection just establishes a TCP/IP path between your two 
computers. You then must move the file via an application like FTP or by 
mounting the disk volume of one computer onto the other and doing a drag-copy.

FTP servers are pretty easy to set up on Mac OS X as long as you know the 
security risks. You can set up a guest account so others can fetch files from 
its home directory. The Windows user then launches an FTP client to fetch the 
files.

Likewise, it's easy to publish your volume using file sharing via SMB (or by 
using Dave if you have it) and the Windows machine can mount it. You likewise 
set up a guest user account that others can use to log in and fetch the file.

In both cases, you can enable and then disable the guest account when needed.
-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com