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From: Frank Thompson on 7 Apr 2010 06:35 Have been told I cannot establish a home LAN containing my two computers. One has Windows 7 OS and the other Snow Leopard OS. Is it true that I cannot do that. Hear I could have done it with older operating systems on both machines but not with the newest ones.
From: �n�hw��f on 7 Apr 2010 10:41 Frank Thompson <gno52(a)windstream.net> clouded the waters of pure thought with news:cbcefdce-3a24-4213-9f81-4c98ed3e773b(a)j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.co m: > Have been told I cannot establish a home LAN containing my two > computers. One has Windows 7 OS and the other Snow Leopard OS. > Is it true that I cannot do that. Hear I could have done it with > older operating systems on both machines but not with the newest > ones. Supposedly in 10.3 its been working ok... Need to use TCP/IP...turn on Windows File Sharing in the Sharing panes Services pane. -- http://www.skepticalscience.com/ cageprisoners.com|www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.eyeonpalin.org _____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____ / __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\ _\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\ /___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\
From: gl4317 on 7 Apr 2010 22:07 In article <cbcefdce-3a24-4213-9f81-4c98ed3e773b(a)j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Frank Thompson <gno52(a)windstream.net> wrote: > Have been told I cannot establish a home LAN containing my two > computers. One has Windows 7 OS and the other Snow Leopard OS. Is it > true that I cannot do that. Hear I could have done it with older > operating systems on both machines but not with the newest ones. In addition to what everyone else has said: It used to be (almost 20 years ago now) that Timbuktu http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/mac/ had utilities for newtorking and mutual communication between Mac and PCs over a network. For example, it came with the stuff required to connect to a PC over a local network and run programs from the Mac on the PC via a similar setup to what is now called Remote Desktop, only allowing the Mac to be the remote PC rather than another PC. I've not had much reason to be involved with large networks of both types of computers for quite some years, but I would think that some poking around into their documentation for their latest version may yield some useful results on how to get the network part of things going - assuming of course their product is still able to operate in this fashion. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: Frank on 8 Apr 2010 11:48 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?
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 8 Apr 2010 14:37
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 world is filled with LANs that contain a mix of OS X and Windows. There is nothing at all preventing OS X 10.6.2 and Windows 7 from being on the same LAN. There may be problems with particular kinds of set-ups, but I can't even begin to guess without more information. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid |