If both machines are on your network you should be able to connect them
together. Usually this is done via a router which connects to your
public internet connection on one side and one or more computers on the
other side. You can think of it as an outlet strip for internet
connections. Under the hood your ISP (Verizon in this case) assigns one
public address to your router. Your router assigns private addresses to
your computers. When a new machine is connected it uses Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol or DHCP to request an address from your router.
When that machine wants to talk with another machine outside your local
network, like a web server, the router takes the request, strips off the
private address, pastes on the public address and sends it out to the
internet. Likewise it does this from the Internet back to your local
machine. The process is called Network Address Translation or NAT. So
your little box does DHCP, NAT and routing of traffic from your local
network to the public network and back.
Hope this helps clear up how some things work.
CB
Tiffany D wrote:
We have one box that hooks up to the desktop if that helps. When we
had Comcast, we had something similar and my friend told me it wasn't
a router, just a direct connection, but I don't know if Verizon is the
same.
On 5/24/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know how fios works, but in my experience, two or more
computers share an internet connection through a router. If this is a
fios setup though, it may be set up to prevent file sharing among
computers. I know someone who had comcast set up their computers and
I had to go in and set up networking for them.
On May 24, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
I'm sorry. I should've explained further but didn't think of it.
Anyway, both computers use the Verizon Wireless but doubt that counts
as networking. I have the modem that came with the Fios account, but
don't think that's what you mean by a router. So how do I network
these computers? I'm not against doing so if it's easy. Is there an
alternative incase this doesn't work for some reason? Oh, let me add
that I have Leopard on my Macbook and XP Home on my laptop.
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
On 5/24/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
...cleaned up the messJAWS made of this...
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
