[P1] Connecting iBook to Wintel machine / ethernet

[Tom R. no spam]

Have you simply looked at the 10.2.6 Sharing System
Preferences > Services (and Firewall) various ways of
doing this?  Search eg "web sharing" in Mac Help (on the
menu bar) and take a look at the various items.  Also
Apple has some KnowledgeBase articles, eg (I've not
looked at these lately so can't vouch for the 10.2.6'ness
of them) KB19652 and the several links at the bottom of it,
and KB106660.

Note, BE AWARE that if you leave such services turned on
on your unit, others may attack your unit at will.  I do
these only within closed LANs, eg ad hoc with a friend
or working on a LAN, and only as long as needed.  You can,
of course, use them over the internet, but except for ssh
they may be a security risk.  (Cf I plugged in to a subnet of
a large organization recently, temporarily using a seldom-
used static IP address, and in less than a minute was hit
with a port scan from an outside address.)

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Michael Adams wrote:
 . . .
> Hmmm,
>
> There are about a million ways to do this. The easiest (?) is to share a
> drive on your PC and mount it on your iBook. To do this, go in to the
> Finder, click on Go, then click on "Connect to Server" and type in
> "smb://10.0.1.3" where the 10.0.1.3 is the IP address of your PC.
>
> If you don't know what the IP is of your PC, well then things get
> interesting. What you can do is on your PC, click on Start, Run (I think
> XP has this option?), then type in winipcfg and choose your network card
> from the drop down menu. Look for the address, remember this, type it
> into the "Connect to Server" window and _hopefully_ you'll be away laughing.
>
> Any one know an easier method to all this? I've just discovered the
> Samba Sharing Package (http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/) which works a
> treat on my network, but can be a bit of a hassle to set up. It lets
> PC's connect to any OS X machine without having to do anything special
> on the PC side.
>
> Well, hope this helps,
> --Michael.
>
>
>
> Peter Nacken wrote:
>
> >How easy is that ?
> >
> >I have to laptops ... One wintel, one apple 10.2.6  and an ethernet cable in
> >between ... What do I need to do to swap files ?? Never done, but I recall
> >it is supposed to be mega easy ... A first test revealed nada ..
> >
> >Any pointers ??
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >P
> >
> >
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