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Nothing gets a flame war going faster than an operating system debate, but these days many people are using more than one system on a network. Maybe you have a Mac on the den for video editing but use a PC for serving digital media in your living room.
Wouldn't it be great to share files between the two over your home network? Fortunately it's not hard to do that at all, you just need to set a few things up.
To share files on between a Windows PC and a Mac OS X machine you need to enable File Sharing on both and create some common folders accessible to both computers.
Note that we are assuming an environment of trusted users such as a secure, home network behind a router firewall.
The Mac Setup (Tiger and Panther)
Head to your System Preferences and click the "Sharing" icon. Then select the "Services" tab and check "Windows Sharing." You may need to adjust your firewall settings as well.
Write down your Mac's IP address as you'll need to enter this later when you connect from the PC.
The Windows setup (XP)
Right-click on the folder you want the Mac to be able to access and click on Properties. Click on the Sharing tab and select to option that reads: "Share this folder on the network."
If you want read and write access check the option to "Allow network users to change my files." Click Apply and then OK.
That's it.
Access The PC from the Mac
In the OS X Finder click the Go menu and choose "Network." This will open a new Finder Window with a list a visible machines. Select the folder you created earlier on the Windows machine. You should be able to access those files as if they were on your Mac.
For a slightly more sophisticated approach you could choose the "Connect To Server" option in the Finder's Go menu and then enter the server address. Once it connects choose the shared folder and hit OK. This should mount the folder on your desktop for convenient access.
Access the Mac from the PC
Open your Start menu and click Search. Then select the "Computers or people" option and then choose "A computer on the network." Now enter the Mac's IP address (which you wrote down earlier) in the search field. You should then be prompted for your Mac's username and password.
Once you've entered the username and password you should see the home folder from your Mac and you should now be able to browse, edit, create and delete files just as you would on your Mac.
And there you have it, painless file sharing between Mac and PC and note that this will work over wifi connections or wired ethernet or any combination of the two.
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