[HM] Re: X and networking question

[Barry Lyden]

In my mixed machine network (mac os x & win xp), my mac finds things 
automatically (by hostname) when I do a connect to server. In other 
words, you may not need to mess with ip addresses, just let the mac 
discover the network.

B


On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 04:50  PM, Florin Alexander Neumann 
wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> f
>
>
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