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I have a macbook running snow leopard
a windows 7 PC has just arrived. Both running wirelessly on a netgear router. Both are working fine and connected to the network - but the mac can't see the PC and vice versa
I want to copy photos and music files from the mac to the PC
very basic step by step stuff please cos I am rubbish at this sort of thing
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Somewhere in the network preferences you should be able to turn on the Mac's in built FTP server, and using this share the directories that you are wanting to copy across.
Once this is enabled you should then be able to point the web browser on the Win7 machine, or any bit of ftp software, at the IP address of the Mac and you should be able to see the shared folders.
You can probably get them talking properly, but I gave up after a while as this was just much easier to sort out... for me at least...
In the sharing preferences in Snow Leopard, you should see SMB settings, I belive this allows you to see the windows PC on yournetwork
SMB is already turned on - with no joy
I presume I should just be looking for the IP address my router says the PC is on?
haven't tried FTP yet - will give that a go but would be good to get things working "properly" if i can
Assuming they are both on the same subnet ... are either / both machines running a firewall? You might need to write in a rule for the smb traffic (which you might have to do for ftp too).
As a quick solution, (although if you like a challenge, it's a total cop-out), would be to use a NAS of some sort, or an external drive.
In my experience ...Filezilla is a pretty fine (Windows) FTP client (and separately, a pretty good server too if it comes to it).
update - booted up this morning and the mac can now see the pc. so sorted
not sure what I did though
My problems have always been with the PC not recognising/wanting to talk to the Mac. Takes a right load of fiddling to get it all to work.