[P1] Connecting iBook to Wintel machine / ethernet

[Michael Adams]

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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