How Do I File Share on Mac and PC: The solution

NIO — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:17:19 +0000

I spent a ton of time reading for this solution and am finding more and more that Youtube is the solution because if it’s a Mac solution they don’t show you the PC side and if it’s a PC soultion, it’s usually useless and doesn’t work.

1. From the PC side to get it to work is best here: It’s BRILLIANT found after hours of trying!

How to share Mac OS X Leopard files on a Windows Vista Network

The PC side of this video above is amazing, I never would have hit Refresh!

2. This is from the Mac to get to the PC side:

A little less descriptive but hey, it was working for me! I found in the comments that you have to use ipconfig in dos to get the IP number of your wireless network (as opposed to your net connection, a good distinction).

So in your PC you go to Start-> Run (WindowsKey+R) then type CMD then you are in DOS and you want to enter ipconfig and then hit return. Be sure to type on the mac side the ip number for the sharing connection (i.e. wireless/ethernet vs. your connection to the internet).

I find that these Youtube videos are way easier then all of the text sometimes!

Now if only I could figure out how to get Internet sharing to work from my PC to my Mac, I am using a WAP access point on 3G network on my cell phone. The quandry is I just want to use my Mac, but I can only get the cell Windows Mobile 6.1 sharing to show up via Bluetooth (which is extremely slow) as opposed to USB sharing which on this PC which is pretty acceptable! Ugh, I will succeed!

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How Do I File Share on Mac and PC: The solution