[X4U] Vista Home Basic With Parallels

[Tim Collier]

On May 2, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> At 9:10 PM -0400 5/2/07, Tim Collier wrote:
>
>> I have Vista Home Ultimate on the Mac Pro with McAffee AV running  
>> on it and IT can't even network with the one running Norton.
>> It's been years since I seriously used a PC but how the average PC  
>> user shares files is beyond this simple Mac user.
>> Mac networking is easy, PC networking is not....or at least not to  
>> me.
>> Finally, I just mention this to illustrate my point above, before  
>> I switched over to the Mac, I was MCSE certified, but I haven't  
>> kept up with anything since 2000, so too much has changed.  I'll  
>> stick to a Mac, thank you.
>
> Me, too. I love my Mac. But file sharing between Mac and Windows is  
> easy. You just make a Shared Folder on the PC and use the IP  
> address of a Mac to Map its drive, or whatever. I don't even  
> remember what you do, but it's easy. In about one hour (obviously)  
> knowing nothing, I got a network working all ways, between Macs  
> between Macs and a Windows machine, and even between Windows in  
> Parallels on the Mac to the real Windows machine and to the Macs on  
> the network.
>
> I suspect your problem is more the Norton than the PC.  Maybe you  
> have it buttoned down one step too tightly?
>
> Daly
Daly:

I agree totally.  I keep telling her that, but God forbid that I  
should touch her PC!
But, back in my Windows networking days, you could share an entire  
drive EASILY, but that was back before all of these Antivirus  
travesties.

Tim