Re: Wi-fi PC/Mac network
- From: Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:17:14 GMT
In article <zephrane-E8F669.16420811122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
zephrane <zephrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a iMac G5 (OS X 10.4.3) and a PC (windows XP). We share an
> internet connection by wi-fi: the Mac uses the in-built Airport and the
> PC an USB dongle.
> is-it possible to built a network with the 2 machines, independantly
> from the internet connection. How to do so?
Are you asking if you can have the Mac talk directly to the PC,
using the existing WiFi connections?
If I understand the question, then yes. There are multiple ways
to get each system to talk to each other.
On the Mac you can enable
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Windows Sharing
And the PC can mount Mac volumes.
A similar thing can be done on the PC to makes Shares available to
the Mac (don't ask me how, I'm a Mac person :-). On the Mac you
would use the Finder "Go" menu and "Connect to Server..." to find
and mount PC Shares on the Mac.
The Mac can share its printer via
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Printer Sharing, but you also
need to have "Windows Sharing" enabled for the PC to be able to
use it.
The following may require an IP address. If your WiFi is an Apple
Airport base station, then you IP address will be of the form
10.0.1.xx. If your WiFi base station is a Linksys, D-Link,
Netgear, SMC, Belkin, Buffalo, etc... then it is likely your IP
addresses will look something like 192.168.xx.yy, where the xx
will be 0, 1, or 2 most likely, but could be another value.
It is possible to set up FTP servers on the Mac or the PC. On the
Mac, System Preferences -> Sharing -> FTP Access
then you an FTP client or a web browser and URLs such as
ftp://your.macs.ip.address, which you can get from the
System Preferences -> Network -> Airport -> TCP/IP panel.
On the Mac side, if the PC has an FTP server, it is possible to
use the Finder "Go" menu "Connect to Server..." to mount an FTP
server as if it were a volume, again using a URL like
ftp://pcs.ip.address, but I do not know where you ask the PC for
that information.
You can also enable SSH connections to the Mac using
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login
SSH allows logging into the Mac via a terminal session (such a
PuTTY on the PC), or sftp file transfers, or scp file transfers.
You will again most likely need the nn.nn.nn.nn IP address.
You can enable the web server on your Mac using
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Personal Web sharing. The PC
would access your web server using
http://your.macs.ip.address/~username
You put web pages into ~username/public
or you can have system wide web pages at
/Library -> WebServer -> Documents
and access them via http://your.macs.ip.address
You can also use a VNC client (TightVNC) on your PC to take over
the screen of your Mac.
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop -> "VNC
viewers may take over the screen with password".
There are similar VNC servers for the PC, and on the Mac you would
use "Chicken of the VNC" as your client to control your PC. Find
Chicken of the VNC at http://versiontracker.com
It is also possible to get Bonjour for the PC which will let you
address your PC and Mac using names instead of numbers. Bonjour
is also know as ZeroConf and Rendezvous.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows_readme.htm
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And if I totally misunderstood what you were asking, "My Bad".
Bob Harris
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