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Are your two computers networked? Do you hav a router? If the answer to both of these is yes, than it is fairly streight forward. Setup a network on your pc. Once that is done, open my computer or windows explorer, choose tools from the menu bar, choose map network drive and choose browse and find your mac and click ok. You can then put files anywher on your mac but your mac also has to allow this and this can be done in system prefs/sharing/personal file sharing. Check the user checkbox you want to share with, that would for instance be you. type a password in the password field. click options and check all the boxes you want to share as such as ftp, afp, smb... close preffs and you can access your windows box and your mac from each other. to access your windows box from your Mac, press command-k and click browse. You should see your pc in the list. press command o or right arrow depending on how you have your finder view set. choose the drive/folder you want to access. I usually just choose the drive so I can access the whole of it. Close the network window and the shared item will appear on the desktop, create a shortcut to it and eject it, use the shortcut pressing command-o to open it and you can transfer between your pc and your mac. If your pc cannot see all of your Mac, you will need to create a user on your Mac and that is a bit harder to explain. the user you want to choose will be slash though, It is strange to me that they set it up this way but when you click ad user, a dialog to choose a folder comes up. to share the entire drive, choose or type /. close the window when done and your pc can see all of your Mac. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tiffany D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:22 PM Subject: Remote Access I'm looking for an application that will allow me to access my pc from my Mac so that I can transfer my files on it. I'm not going out and buying a hard drive so I can use time machine and I'm not even sure if it'll work with the two opperating systems. I know that there are alot of sites out there that will access your pc, but 1. they have to work with the Mac as well and 2. they have to be accessible with VoiceOver and a windows screenreader like Hal, NVDA, System Access to Go or JFW. Does anyone know of such a site? I'm also curious how you can control one os while using the other, but that's another question entirely. In the meantime, I'm transfering my files by uploading them to various sites, but this would really make things quicker. That, and some of them just don't seem to want to transfer. When I zip them with Winzip, they're empty when I open them. I'm hoping remote access will fix my problem. Thanks, Tiffanitsa
