The Network Game???

[NanoBite]

Hi, I have an iMac 2ghz and a PC running Windows XP and both are connected via Ethernet cable to a router receiving broadband.

 

[tiger1964]

I just plugged my new iBook into my network and was able to see the Windows machines and share files. If you don't already have a home network setup you may need to use the wizard in windows to set one up. Then you can choose the folders or drives you wish to share and right click on them, choose Sharing, then select Share this folder on the network and hit apply. On the Mac in System Preferences you may have to activate file sharing also. Just remember the Mac can read and write to FAT drives but can only read from NTFS drives.

 

[NanoBite]

I've turned file sharing on.

 

[chuckalicious]

it may be that the IP address of your Windows PC is changing each time you turn it off.

There's 2 things you could try. First of all, go to Start in Windows and find the network connections section in either the Start menu or the Control Panel (depends how you've set up Windows) and find a live connection called Local Area Connection. Should have 2 blue computer screens.

Now double click on that and if you're in XP you should have a "Support" tab, click that and look for your IP address. If it's different to the one you've been typing in, try the one you see.

if that doesn't work, I'm not sure what's going on, I've not really tried networking my iBook with my PC network yet.

 

[tiger1964]

Too be honest my setup was a bit of a cheat because my home network was already set up. All I had to do was plug in the iBook and there it was under network.
I don't have to type in an IP address to connect, just Network-Home-computername.
The Windows computers aren't even called up by IP, just by computer name.

Maybe you will have to reboot the Mac to see your network? I am running the latest version of Tiger and it loses the network alot!

We have our internal IPs assigned under DHCP by the router. Our internals do not change, just the router IP which is under PPPoe (Verizon FIOS).

 

[tiger1964]

Finder-Go-Network is what works here.

Finder-G0-connect to server does not work.

My setup is a LAN connection.

Wish I could help more, my husband is at work and he is the one who knows the ins and outs of networking.

 

[justanobody]

Hi, I have an iMac 2ghz and a PC running Windows XP and both are connected via Ethernet cable to a router receiving broadband.

I want to be able to share between both computers and wouldn't have a clue how to set them up to communicate.

I went to the Mac shop and they gave me some web links which confused the bejesus out of me, so I rang my isp and they said they don't offer support for the kind of thing I was asking for and also added that the router would assign a new ip address each time I turned the computers on...this confused me more....

I can't understand the in's and out's of it but is there someone out there who could help someone like myself with this...???

Have you created a network on either computer? The way I understand your situation is that you just plugged both into the router for the internet but no network has been created. If that is the case, I would go to the network connection on XP and hit the set up a home office network on the left side of the screen. It will wak you through the process which at one point will ask you to name your network (default is mshome, but I would change it to something else). Then go to the mac and type in the same network name. I only have one computer wired and my others (both my macs) are hooked up wirelessly so it is a little different than your situation. I still think there has to be a newtwork created and named for both computers to find. Hope that helped more than confused....

 

[NanoBite]

I also have the PC set up to a network via the network wizard.

 

[NanoBite]

it may be that the IP address of your Windows PC is changing each time you turn it off.

 

[NanoBite]

When I double clicked on it, it enabled the connection.

 

[Kyomii]

Have you enabled printer and file sharing on your Windows machine? Also, it will have to have the same workgroup name as the Mac and visa versa.

Not sure about the IP addresses, because if your IP is via DHCP via the router, the IP should stay the same as should the gateway - only the 'true" IP changes - but the true IP is not needed to connect/file share because you are using a router.

For example, the gateway on some routers is 10.0.0.2 - therefore the IP assigned on your machines will be 10.0.0.? - replacing the ? for a number usually between 4 and 15 if you have them set automatically.

This will stay the same - but, the true IP will change - but only the router assigned IP is needed to connect if they are networked via the router. For example, to connect to my Windows I only have to type in smb://10.0.0.6.

Your router gateway sounds like the 192.168.1.1 - therfore, I am unsure what 101 is doing on the end of your address unless you have set your machine in manual range for IP via your router?

However, a common problem of not seeing the PC on the Mac is a PC firewall such as Zone alarm and/or antivirus software such as Norton. If you are running a firewall then ensure you have put the Mac’s IP address as a trusted IP into your firewall's trusted zone settings - otherwise you will have no chance of seeing it.

Also, if you have Norton AV installed, or any other AV, disable the auto-protect feature. You should then be able to ping your PC from the Mac.

As things are working the other way around (PC>Mac) I would think that it is likely to be your PC firewall/Av that is causing the issue.

 

[Kyomii]

For the purpose of other posters who come across this problem the firewall solution (putting IP address of machine in trusted zone) worked for NanoBite.