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File sharing between Mac and PC using ethernet

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  • 11-01-2016 12:27am
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    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Starting a new editing project in the morning, where I will be working on a Windows 7 PC in the same room as someone working on a mac (not sure what specific OS he's running, but most likely 10.7 or up). We're looking to connect the two computers directly via ethernet, so that I can send large media files to his machine as we both work.

    I've spent the last couple of hours looking at step by step tutorials online, watching youtube videos, and everything; but no matter what I do, I can't get the machines to see each other. I've followed all the steps laid out, but when it comes to trying to connect to server on the mac by typing in the PC's IP address in the format - "smb://169.254.x.x"; it says connection failed.

    All the tutorials online seem to make it look easy, but I fear that I'm completely in the dark when it comes to even basic networking. Am I missing a crucial, unstated step? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    There's probably not very much info to go off in my post here, so apologies for that.

    Thanks.


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    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    probably down to Apple Department of Awkwardness and their version of SMB or something , SMB mismatch/features

    start a server of some description on one of them

    https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server


    or whatever else you'd like to use


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    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    or easier to use something like this :

    https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

    just enable SSH on the mac


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    65535
    Registered Users Posts: 785 ✭✭✭65535


    Get Tonido, works on all PC/MAC/Linux
    http://www.tonido.com/


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Have you considered setting up an FTP server on your Windows machine, and having them connect to it from the Mac?


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    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Hi guys.

    Thanks for all the replies. Managed to get connected eventually after a lot of farting around, and utilising samba, but the speed is abysmal. It's an Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network card on the PC, but I'm getting at most 11MB a sec when copying. Not so great for moving a hundred GBs of footage...

    I went the ftp route, and ham handedly managed to get a connection between the two machines, but the speed is still the same.

    Any ideas why the connection speed is so choked? In the link speed in the card properties, it craps out when I try to force the card to 1.0Gbps Full Duplex. It goes directly to 100Mbps/Full duplex when I select 'Auto Negotiation'. Is my card telling me big fibs about being a gigabit card?

    Again, apologies for the vague info... Seriously out of my depth when it comes to this kind of work.

    Thanks!


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    65535
    Registered Users Posts: 785 ✭✭✭65535


    It depends on how they connect together.
    If you use a Gigabit switch then the cards will auto negotiate to Gigabit speeds.
    If you use a 10/100 switch then you will get 100 max


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    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    make sure you have cat5e cable that can do 1 gig


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    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    I haven't seen any mention of a switch - OP are you maybe using a crossover cable - i.e. there is a single cable running between the Win7 network card and the Mac?

    If so then this will need to be rated at Cat 5e or Cat 6 to get the speeds you want. If it's Cat 5, your going to be limited to 10/100Mbps.


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,164 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Just to explain in case you were unaware OP, 100Mb/s ~12MB/s so you're getting the expected speed.

    As above, you need good cabling and a Gig NIC on both machines.


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