Okay, I have an older PC that one of my family uses mainly for familiarity but also for doing a course that focuses on Microsoft Office. It means that work is being done on it that it would be nice to back up, but which I don't have a spare drive to back-up onto.
However, my Mac has plenty of drive space as I've got 3tb internal and the same again in an external (time machine) volume. So what I'd like to do is set-up the Windows XP PC to somehow back-up onto my Mac whenever both machines are switched on.
Is there an easy way to do this? I was thinking I could somehow set-up my Mac to just grab files from the PC when it's on, using my administrator account for the PC to access the folder(s) that need backing up, and throw them in a folder so Time Machine on my Mac will kick in and provide its lovely recovery support. Being able to grab only the changed files would be a bonus, as the PC is pretty old, so not the speediest machine in the world =)
Thus far however I've yet to have any luck in getting the PC to recognise my Mac or vice-versa. Ideally though it'd be the PC doing the sharing, as I don't really want to enable Windows sharing on my Mac.
Anyone got something like this set-up, or have any ideas on how I'd go about doing this? A list of simple steps would be great, even though I am a programmer networking is really the bane of my existence, and the Windows XP controls for it are about as friendly as a rabid wolf.
However, my Mac has plenty of drive space as I've got 3tb internal and the same again in an external (time machine) volume. So what I'd like to do is set-up the Windows XP PC to somehow back-up onto my Mac whenever both machines are switched on.
Is there an easy way to do this? I was thinking I could somehow set-up my Mac to just grab files from the PC when it's on, using my administrator account for the PC to access the folder(s) that need backing up, and throw them in a folder so Time Machine on my Mac will kick in and provide its lovely recovery support. Being able to grab only the changed files would be a bonus, as the PC is pretty old, so not the speediest machine in the world =)
Thus far however I've yet to have any luck in getting the PC to recognise my Mac or vice-versa. Ideally though it'd be the PC doing the sharing, as I don't really want to enable Windows sharing on my Mac.
Anyone got something like this set-up, or have any ideas on how I'd go about doing this? A list of simple steps would be great, even though I am a programmer networking is really the bane of my existence, and the Windows XP controls for it are about as friendly as a rabid wolf.