Mac-to-Mac file sharing/sending through Airport?

[smwatson]

My brother has treated himself to a Macbook Pro 15" for his Architecture degree, and it would be really helpful if there is a way for me to send him files from my iMac to his Macbook P. Iv tried setting up a Computer-to-Computer network, and he has then connected to this. How do i now share files?
Cheers

 

[garfield2002]

OS X has a ton of networking features some of which are quite easy to use, and others will require more knowlege of IP addresses, your airport router configurations, the OS X software firewall, etc. It seems from reading your post that you are primarily interested in sending files to your brother. The easiest way to do this without a lot of tinkering with systems preferences is to fire up the old iChat, log into or create separate AIM accounts for you and your brother, and then do a simple file transfer. This method works well for a small number of files and you can actually send folders. I've used this method to send large zip archives >600MB with no problems. This method is actually quite fast if you have a broadband internet connection.

 

[Le Big Mac]

My brother has treated himself to a Macbook Pro 15" for his Architecture degree, and it would be really helpful if there is a way for me to send him files from my iMac to his Macbook P. Iv tried setting up a Computer-to-Computer network, and he has then connected to this. How do i now share files?
Cheers

You can share your public folder, and then he can drop documents into it.

System Preferences-->Sharing-->personal file sharing

 

[dextertangocci]

Just connect the 2 macs with an ethernet cable, or airport base station or other wireless router, and enable personal file sharing in system preferences. Then, in Finder, press command + K, and type in the IP adress of the mac you want to send files to. The HD will appear on your desktop, and you can drag files onto it

 

[MacDonaldsd]

Just connect the 2 macs with an ethernet cable, or airport base station or other wireless router, and enable personal file sharing in system preferences. Then, in Finder, press command + K, and type in the IP adress of the mac you want to send files to. The HD will appear on your desktop, and you can drag files onto it

Seems best option

Ive always used bonjour in iChat. Basically it means you can IM across your home network and therefore send files at about 5mb/s

 

[Obsidian6]

Agreed with the above. just enable your file sharing. enter the IP and use his Drop Box ahh how i love the drop box heh. Makes it very easy to get things from my g5 to my powerbook

 

[m-dogg]

I've used Pando a few times to transfer files with a friend outside of the same network (he's an hour away and runs XP), and that has worked well. Let's you do up to 1GB per transfer and it's free.

I know it's not exactly what's needed here, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway...

 

[smwatson]

This is probably a massively important point iv missed, but do i need an Airport router? all i have is my iMac and his MBP

 

[Obsidian6]

not necessarily. as long as you have a wireless network that you can both connect to.

OR

if you have an ethernet cable, you can create a direct high-speed connection between your two books.
this might be of some use to you.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461

 

[smwatson]

Problem solved. I just mounted his disk image (ifthats the right terminology) and placed files in his "drop box"