Learn to Share Files Between Windows PCs and Macs on a Network
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Aug 17th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives)“Mac OS X or Windows? Nothing gets a flame war going faster than that old debate. But these days, many people are using both of those operating systems on a network. Maybe you have a Windows PC in the home office, but you’ve got an iMac for video editing and a Mac Mini for serving digital media in your living room. One big happy family? Hardly — Macs and Windows PCs can’t see each other on a network right out of the box, preventing you from sharing documents, photos, videos, music and even printers among your flock of computers.
Luckily, the ability to share files among all of your computers on your home network is well within reach. You just need to tweak a few settings before all of your computers are happily sharing.
To share files between a Windows PC and a Mac OS X machine, you need to enable File Sharing on both and create some common folders accessible to both computers. Note that we are assuming an environment of trusted users such as a secure home network behind a router firewall. These techniques will work over a Wi-fi connection, a wired Ethernet or any combination of the two. Also, even though we’ll concentrate on Windows XP here, your steps should be largely the same if you’re using Vista.” READ MORE @ WIRED.COM
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