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Accessing Windows on MAC

  • 02-07-2005 12:02pm
    #1
    Gangsta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to share files from my windows xp home pc for my tiger mac. I have two wireless networks setup. One called network which i setup while as part of installing airport express. This worked fine for internet but I was unable to access my PC from the Mac.
    I created a second computer-computer network on the mac called imac. I changed both ips on the computers to fixed and connected to this network and voila it worked. Only problem is that I can't browse the internet on the mac now.

    Is there any way I can incorporate the two networks, network and imac?


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  • #2
    formatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭formatman


    theres a setting in Networks ,

    have you set the Gateway address for the router or Airport express


  • #3
    Gangsta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Gangsta


    No I haven't, I wouldn't know what to set it to.


  • #4
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Gangsta wrote:
    I'm trying to share files from my windows xp home pc for my tiger mac. I have two wireless networks setup.

    Can you give more detail on this ?
    What do you mean by 2 wireless networks ?
    Have you got a wireless access point/router (infrastructure) or computer to computer (ad-hoc)?
    If an access point do you know the SSID or Wireless network name ?
    Can it provide i.p. addresses, i.e. can it do DHCP ? If so can you configure it ?
    What kind of internet access - broadband or dial-up ? What type of modem - Ethernet or USB ?

    If using an access point :

    Join both computers to the access point and configure both to get their info from the access point via dhcp, this should sort out the internet side of things.

    The Mac will automatically find any windows workgroups and computers but you can speed it up by going to: <mac hard disk> >Applications > Utilities > Directory Access - click the padlock if it's locked and enter your password, the bottom line is "SMB/CIFS" ensure it's checked then select it and click "Configure" under the window. Enter the name of your workgroup here if you know it (usually MSHOME on XP home edition I think). Click OK and click the padlock to lock it.

    This assumes you have an access point somewhere and are not connecting the two computers just with their wireless cards.

    If you're using ad-hoc then which computer provides the connection to the internet ?
    One called network which i setup while as part of installing airport express. This worked fine for internet but I was unable to access my PC from the Mac.

    Can't the airport express join the same wireless network as the PC and Mac without having to create a new one just for it ?

    Your setup sounds very complicated, can you tell us a bit more about it ?

    ZEN


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