[HM] X and networking question

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 14:07 Canada/Eastern, Jack Honeycutt 
wrote:

> About all I want to do network wise, is pull into my G4, some movie 
> (Quicktime, DV, and AVI) files from my XP Pro box.

You're not saying, but presumably you are using DHCP (your Linksys 
router assigns IP numbers to the machines on the network).

(1) On the XP machine, make sure that (a) TCP/IP and File and Printer 
Sharing for Microsoft Networks are installed and enabled, (b) Internet 
Connection Firewall is disabled, (c) some resource (e.g., a folder) is 
shared. Jot down your XP machine's name, workgroup, and IP number.

(2) On the OS X machine, in Finder choose Go > Connect to Server... In 
the Connect to Server dialogue, type in the address box:

smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your XP machine's IP number. This should take 
you to the SMB/CIFS file system authentication, and then to SMB mount, 
where you can choose which shared resource to connect to.

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