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Connecting my mac to a PC

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sambouka

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I am still a newbie on MACS. I just purchased a powerbook and have loads of mp3's and movies on my house PC. I am trying to connect to my windows pc through USB and Wireless and cant seem to figure it out. Any suggestions on how to do so?

Thanks!🙂
 
The easiest way would be ethernet, Mac OS X does a pretty good job in making it easy, so you should be able to access all your PC files.
Just take a cable from your wireless setup (I believe Macs don't need special cross-over cables), that would be way easier than trying to get them to connect the wireless way.
As far as I know, there is no USB-way... in case your PC has Firewire though, you could connect your computers with a FW cable and start up your Mac holding down the 'T' key... it will act like a FW-harddrive.
But like I said, Ethernet will be the easiest way 🙂 Hope this helps
 
and btw, it is "i am new to the mac" not "i am new to MACS"

if you are going to be grammatically incorrect at least spell the mac rights. MAC is a netowrking thing that uniquely identifies every network port ever made.
 
Originally posted by benixau
and btw, it is "i am new to the mac" not "i am new to MACS"

if you are going to be grammatically incorrect at least spell the mac rights. MAC is a netowrking thing that uniquely identifies every network port ever made.
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Dude, like this matters so much. This is just a forum, and as long as we know what the person means, it's allright. It's nice that you tell him what's right so that he can learn it, but maybe he doesn't give a **** about it 🙄
 
i just get frustrated with people doing that. i was only trying to inform him.

sambouka, if you dont care about the mac community, then keep it up. i just am informing you. thats all
 
Originally posted by benixau
i just get frustrated with people doing that. i was only trying to inform him.

sambouka, if you dont care about the mac community, then keep it up. i just am informing you. thats all
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I can kinda understand your point... I mean, I don't get how some over 20-year-old US-citiziens don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'... but hey, that sorta stuff really doesn't matter IMO
 
Originally posted by Gringo
Something that really worked for me was downloading DAVE trial here:

http://www.thursby.com/forms/action...orm.lasso&-anyerror=FormOpenError.lasso&-show

Once downloaded, you'll begin installing and it will do it almost all by it's self... it really is easy to use....

HTH,

G.-
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Yep, I tried that too a while ago, under 10.1, worked beautifully. But I believe with 10.2, you don't need DAVE any more, cause the OS does the same job... I could be wrong though 😀
 
Yeap!!!!!

10.2 is basically the same thing.... it's just that the previous os's don't have Netbios to be able to talk to a pc. the netbios is the one thing that can help each machine talk to each other... on 10.2 it has the netbios, but not quite the same... it does do the job though.... have not used it ever so can't say for sure, but it is like the netbios.

G.-
 
Originally posted by benixau
and btw, it is "i am new to the mac" not "i am new to MACS"

if you are going to be grammatically incorrect at least spell the mac rights. MAC is a netowrking thing that uniquely identifies every network port ever made.
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talk about pedantic... this guy's asking for help and you throw incorrect definitions of MAC Addresses at him. really 🙄
 
Originally posted by benixau
i just get frustrated with people doing that. i was only trying to inform him.

sambouka, if you dont care about the mac community, then keep it up. i just am informing you. thats all
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I think we are taking this a little bit too personal. There is nothing to get all 'frustrated' about. It was just a question.

For the rest of you...thanks for your help....I appreciate it!

I was wondering if its possible to access my pc using Airport?
 
Originally posted by j763


talk about pedantic... this guy's asking for help and you throw incorrect definitions of MAC Addresses at him. really 🙄
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then pm me with the correct definition or post it here (and still pm me plz).

also i use jag on a XP/2k netowrk. netbios thingy works great. it just takes a few secs longer to id a pc then a mac. no probs.
 
Originally posted by sambouka


I think we are taking this a little bit too personal. There is nothing to get all 'frustrated' about. It was just a question.

For the rest of you...thanks for your help....I appreciate it!

I was wondering if its possible to access my pc using Airport?
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The Airport has to be in the Mac, but I don't belive you have airport cards for the PC... I think you could try to see a connection in which you can connect it directly through cable to the airport base and your mac wireless and see how it goes from there... With Jag your conna be able to do it ok...

G.-
 
Originally posted by Gringo



The Airport has to be in the Mac, but I don't belive you have airport cards for the PC... I think you could try to see a connection in which you can connect it directly through cable to the airport base and your mac wireless and see how it goes from there... With Jag your conna be able to do it ok...

G.-
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I have a wirless network connected to my PC at home using Linksys. I am able to connect to the internet using my powerbook which has a built in Airport in it, and it works great. The only thing is, I try using the network on my powerbook to view other computers and I am not able to locate any one of them. My PC cant see my powerbook either.

Sam
 
Originally posted by sambouka


I have a wirless network connected to my PC at home using Linksys. I am able to connect to the internet using my powerbook which has a built in Airport in it, and it works great. The only thing is, I try using the network on my powerbook to view other computers and I am not able to locate any one of them. My PC cant see my powerbook either.

Sam
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There you go... ok so you can use it on the pc, but I belive in this case it depends on the OS your using since with Jag your supposed to be able to get in a network with a pc in seconds....

I'm not an expert in the subject anyways!

G.-
 
Originally posted by sambouka


I have a wirless network connected to my PC at home using Linksys. I am able to connect to the internet using my powerbook which has a built in Airport in it, and it works great. The only thing is, I try using the network on my powerbook to view other computers and I am not able to locate any one of them. My PC cant see my powerbook either.

Sam
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have you tried it in wireled configuration? if that workd then there may be a problem in the pcs wireless settings. or the linksys' or maybe there is a firewall blcoking NetBIOS config.

of course if it dont work in a wired configuration then i would look at jag. make sure that you have configured the network properly.

also maybe try turning on window s file sharing. i know it shouldnt have an effect but it amy.


good luck
 
Originally posted by benixau


have you tried it in wireled configuration? if that workd then there may be a problem in the pcs wireless settings. or the linksys' or maybe there is a firewall blcoking NetBIOS config.

of course if it dont work in a wired configuration then i would look at jag. make sure that you have configured the network properly.

also maybe try turning on window s file sharing. i know it shouldnt have an effect but it amy.


good luck
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I was able to see my mac once I turned on the windows filesharing in the System pref. When I try logging on from the PC to my mac in the netwrok neighborhood a promt comes out with the resource (IP No. and the drive im trying to access) and asks for a password. I tried almost every password I could think of and it didnt work! It wont allow me to access the mac for some reason. On the powerbooks side, I am not able to see the PCs for some reason. when i click on "servers" it only shows my "local"
 
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