start a samba server on the mac
The OP wants to connect to the W7 system, from his Mac, if I am reading this right.
You need to enable your system drives (C:\) (D:\), etc., as
shared volumes in Windows
first. Once each is set up as a shared volume, you can use '
Go->Connect to Server' (Command-K) to open up a dialogue in OSX, and type the following:
smb://1.2.3.4 (where 1.2.3.4 is the IP on your Windows system).
You can check your IP by opening a DOS prompt (cmd) and typing the command
ipconfig. This will give you your current IP, MAC address, etc.
You may also want to install CygWin so that you can ssh into your Windows system from OSX.
To do the reverse, in OSX, you will need to enable Windows Sharing in '
System Preferences->Sharing'. Store the username and password from your Windows system on your mac, and after this you can connect to OSX with Network places. The correct format can be obscure, but is in general:
\\1.2.3.4\User
1.2.3.4 is the IP address of your Mac, and
User is your account name on OSX.
If you have a machine name set in OSX, you can use:
\\Machinename.local\User
You need both general file sharing enabled, and Windows Sharing enabled in OSX for a Windows system to connect to OSX, but on Windows, you need only share the desired volumes, or directories.
SSH is always a good fallback, as it is secure, and fast. It works directly with filesystems, using standard shell commands, and not just the limited FTP arguments. That means that you can do
scp, which is what you want for file transfers, rather than
put.
