I know there have already been a lot of good replies. If you are on OSX.2.4 all you need to do (having enabled file sharing in your target machine (PC or MAC) is
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Peter Millard wrote:
On your PC, you'll need a folder or volume that has shared access,
password-protected if you need it, with file-sharing enabled in the OS. In
OSX, you need to connect to the PC using the
'smb://workgroup;name/volume/directory' procedure - so if you're accessing
My Documents on a PC called OfficePC in a workgroup called Studio, you'd
type 'smb://Studio;OfficePC/C/My Documents'
That sounds a long way roung. All you ned to do in OSX.2.4 is click on Go/Connect to server in the Finder window and then click on local. This will bring up all the available volumes on your ethernet.
I am running Win 98 on my PC and haven't worked out if I can connect from that to the MAc, but as has been stated you can push the files from the Mac to the PC rather than pulling them. When my son is here with his Win2000 laptop he can do something pretty similar and find all my Mac volumes and it took him seconds to set up - so I imagine it works pretty much the same as OSX. I think XP is similar.
When I was on OS9 it was much more complicated and I used Dave (which has already been mentioned) which I have to say was a bit of a pin top set up - and yes - your G4 will automatically detect whether you have a straight or crossover cable.
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