[P1] Airport File Sharing, iBook-to-iBook

[Joe Jones]

On your "base station" iBook select "create network" from the AirPort 
menu in the menu bar at the top of the screen. If you don't have the 
little quarter circle radio wave icon for AirPort on your menu go to 
System Preferences > Network and choose "airport" from the drop down 
box (you can select between built in ethernet, modem and airport).

With the airrport settings now visible, pick the airport tab on the far 
right and make sure the two checkboxes at the bottom are selected - one 
will be 'show airport status in menu bar' and the other will be 'allow 
this computer to create networks'.

With those checked you can select 'create network' from the menu at the 
top of the screen.

You'll get a window to enter information. The network name will default 
to your computer's name, but you can put anything you like in there. 
You can choose to enable WEP if you like, but for file sharing between 
two friends I wouldn't worry about it too much. The default settings 
will enable you to get going just fine.

Once it's up and running the other iBook should detect it as a base 
station and receive an ip address from it. If not you can specify the 
network name and ip address by hand to join. You can see this info in 
the menu at the top of the screen. You can also open the internet 
connect app which will allow you to do this.

The other settings are the same as connecting via ethernet - enable 
file sharing or the ftpd or any other service you need.

Joe

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 17:53 Europe/London, Richard J Laue wrote:

> Hi, everyone -
>
> I need a quick "getting started" tutorial.  I have a 600mhz iBook with 
> Airport card, and a friend has just bought an 800mhz, also with 
> Airport card.  Neither of us has an Airport base station.
>
> What's the quickest and simplest way to set up our machines to trade a 
> bunch of files?  I know we can designate one of our machines as a 
> "base station," but beyond that I'm kind of lost.
>
> I know how to connect our machines via ethernet or via 
> firewire-disk-mode, but it's time I learned how to do the Airport 
> thing.
>
> I've looked in the Mac Help guide, but it seems to address internet 
> sharing and doesn't say anything about just file sharing.
>
> Thanks -
> RJLaue
>
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