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From: Frank Thompson on 9 Apr 2010 07:10 On Apr 8, 2:37 pm, Jeffrey Goldberg <nob...(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > Frank wrote: > > I will take many of your hints and try to see what I can do. Should > > I start with the Snow Leopard (v10.6.2) machine or the Windows 7 > > machine? > > Until you explain what it is that you actually want to do it will be > impossible to give you advice. The two machines are use a wireless connection to the same router. I want to be able to open and work on files on either machine from either machine.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 9 Apr 2010 14:56 Frank Thompson wrote: > The two machines are use a wireless connection to the same router. I > want to be able to open and work on files on either machine from > either machine. That file sharing should be simple. One of the machines will need to be set up to share files. I will describe what to do to share the files from the Mac (since I know that better). In System Preferences go to Sharing. Select File Sharing. Selection "Options" Check the box that says "Enable SMB sharing" (Note that in some documentation the SMB file serving protocol is referred to by the name "CIFS"). Note that if you share from your Mac then your Mac will have to be on when those files are accessed. Likewise if you do things the other way round, the Windows machine will have to be on. A third option is to buy an external NAS (Network Attached Storage). These are boxes with disks that run various file sharing protocols (SMB/CIFS, FTP, NFS, AFS). AFS is best for Macs. SMB/CIFS is best for Windows. These have a network port and you could just plug the thing into your router. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 9 Apr 2010 14:58
Michael Vilain wrote: > In article > <3b1c4732-c6c7-4db6-9ab0-fb63ecb4844c(a)x20g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, > Frank Thompson <gno52(a)windstream.net> wrote: >> The two machines are use a wireless connection to the same router. I >> want to be able to open and work on files on either machine from >> either machine. > > That's really a function of what file-sharing facilities are used by > Windows 7 and MacOS X. Apple uses Apple File Protocol natively. Unless > Windows 7 does also, I would doubt that either would be able to talk > together without some 3rd-party tool being installed. Snow Leopard can do SMB/CIFS file sharing. Just enable it in Options in the File sharing preference pane. -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid |