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Connecting to Mac from PC problem
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<blockquote data-quote="waynerrr" data-source="post: 1439963" data-attributes="member: 46837"><p>II had 2 hours of frustration</p><p></p><p>but i'd advise using an ethernet cable between the machines first</p><p></p><p>1. turn off wirelesson both</p><p></p><p>2. i connected my 2 machines with a cable, windows 7 and Leopard</p><p></p><p>Both assign an automatic IP...If you are on XP i dont know if you'll have to add ip manually</p><p></p><p>3. Then on pc start>run>\\173.295.127.89\User (put in IP address of mac)</p><p></p><p>and it mounted the the users folders</p><p></p><p>so now that you got that working then maybe its the ports in your router being blocked</p><p></p><p></p><p>This article is the shoulder that i stood on..... <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7116" target="_blank">Mac OS X 10.6: Connecting your Mac directly to a Windows computer</a></p><p></p><p>it is everything i said above</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="waynerrr, post: 1439963, member: 46837"] II had 2 hours of frustration but i'd advise using an ethernet cable between the machines first 1. turn off wirelesson both 2. i connected my 2 machines with a cable, windows 7 and Leopard Both assign an automatic IP...If you are on XP i dont know if you'll have to add ip manually 3. Then on pc start>run>\\173.295.127.89\User (put in IP address of mac) and it mounted the the users folders so now that you got that working then maybe its the ports in your router being blocked This article is the shoulder that i stood on..... [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7116]Mac OS X 10.6: Connecting your Mac directly to a Windows computer[/url] it is everything i said above [/QUOTE]
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