Airporting a pc to 17 inch powerbook

[Riko19]

im trying to link pc to powerbook 17inch vie base station.

anyone know how to do this if possble

i need to purchase base station thou

i have airport extreme in 17inch powerbook.

what else i need to do?

ta!

 

[mnkeybsness]

get a wireless card for the PC

 

[iJon]

well you dont need the pc wireless card. you can connect your pc to the lan port in the airport extreme, but that is if you wanna use wires.

iJon

 

[Wyrm]

Yeah - real easy.

Plug in base station - configure with Mac (ssid and all that) -
connect PC, either via WiFi or by the ethernet cable on the back of the basestation - then you can either run a samba server on the Mac / connect via smb from the Mac / or use FTP to transfer files. You can easily mount a smb share on a mac, and have it appear on your desktop. I do this, and after 10.2 it works with no problems (10.0 and 10.1 were picky).

The old Airport/AirMac used Lucent Orinocco cards, but does anyone know what the make of the cards are for AirPort Extreme?

I used to use AirMac for a base station, but I've found LinkSys are actually better (better range) AND you can configure it with a web browser AND its cheaper! (And Apple wouldn't repair my AirMac after it blew up - they only said "might as well buy a new one" - it was out of warranty, so I bought a LinkSys)

-Wyrm