Windows 2000, No USB, Network, Help

[jockeyrob]

Hello everyone,

I've been reading here a while now. This will be my first post.
It is a question cause I know there's smart people here who can probably answer it really easily.
Hopefully.

I have an old IBM Thinkpad running Windows 2000 which doesn't have USB, but I have an Ethernet card for it, I downloaded some torrents for mac on it and want to transfer them to my mac. (I really don't want to re-use the bandwidth and do it over on the mac.)

I tried connecting the two by Ethernet cable but wasn't able to create a network. I'm not very knowledgable about the networking side of computers and I'm not sure if it is in fact possible to transfer files from PC to a Mac over an Ethernet cable.

Any advice, walkthroughs, tips, would be very helpful.

Thank you for your time in reading this.
Rob.

 

[mkrishnan]

Mmmm, it should be... but you may need to do one of two things:

1) Open directory access on your Mac (utils folder) and set the workgroup to match the value in Windows

2) Install Bonjour for Windows on the TPad.

 

[balamw]

Have you consulted the guide here: http://guides.macrumors.com/Networking_Windows_with_Mac_OS_X

Can you give more info as to what you have tried and what is going wrong?

B

 

[jockeyrob]

I tried what it said on the guide, but I get an error -43 on the mac after I'm asked to enter the password.

I tried to set the PC to say that it didn't need a password, but there was still a box for one.

Thanks for responding so promptly, I'm going to keep trying, so any further advice would be great.

 

[jockeyrob]

Hey! It worked!

Ha, awesome.

Thanks so much guys.