Hi Josh I'll try to help you with this al though I haven't quite got it down
to the point where I can give you exact instructions but hopefully I can get
you in the right direction. What you will need to do first is run the
networking and sharing wizard on the windows computer if you haven't already
done so., and then set your two passport drives to be shared out on the
network so that you can copy stuff betwene them and they can see each other
so in windows you wanta go to the properties on the drive that's plugged
into the netbook and go to the sharing tab and check the box that says share
this folder or drive on the network. then you will need to go into the
system preferences on the mac and go to the sharing option and then navigate
to the options button and press vo space then there will be a checkbox
called smb for windows computers, note if you have a password on your
windows account at some point you will need to enter that on the mac. now
the next thing after the smb checkbox is a table which lists all the
accounts that are allowed to access the shared folders and they will have
checkboxes so you just check the one you want then the mac will ask you for
the password for that account and I think it's refering to the mac account
but I'm not sure but try the password for the account on the mac put the
password in and find the ok button if you're using snow leopard then it will
probably automatically start interacting with the accounts table when you
enter it, if not, just do vo-shift-downarrow and when you are done use
vo-shift-up arrow to stop interacting with it and find the done button and
press it. now we need to go to the mac side of the drive sharing and enable
your other passport so put the cursor on it in the finder and do connand-i
to bring up the info dialog and there will be a general discloser triangle
if it's collapsed do vo-backslash to expand it and after all the different
colors of labels ther will be a checkbox that says shared folder so you'll
want to check this box and then you'll want to make sure that you have
appropriate premitions to access the folder so if you want to be able to
both read and write to this drive then make sure that it says that down at
the bottom and after you're done with that close the window. ok, well if
all that went well now let's see if we can access the folder either on the
mac or the net book. if you want to access it on the mac from with in the
finder do command shift k and this will bring up your network of computers
and you can navigate through them it's kind of like a treeview it seems like
for me sometimes once I get wown so far I have to do command o or command
down arrow to open the folder, well so when you find what you want to coppy
on the windows computer do command c to copy then go find the place on the
mac where you wanta paste it and do command v to paste. While the progress
is going you can then interact with the list to see how much has been
transfered and how much time is left. Well I hope this helps you get
accomplished what your trying to do maybe some one else can fill in anything
I might have left out Lol!
Gene----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Kennedy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 7:19 AM
Subject: transferring stuff from pc to mac?
Hi
I got some stuff on my netbook that I want to transfer over to my mac. The
problem is compounded by the fact that if the netbook were working correctly
I could just plug in my new passport drive and windows xp would see it but
its not working out like that. So my question is this, is there a way I
could plug the old passport drive into the netbook, tell the netbook to act
as a kind of server, sharing all of the files on the old passport drive.
Then go to the mac plug in the new passport drive into the mac which the mac
does see the new passport drive but it does not see the old one because the
old drive is a blackarmor drive that only works on windows machines so
anyway I would use the network netbook as a kind of server to transfer all
100gigs of stuff from one passport drive onto the other drive, not cuttig
it, but copying it over. Is this possible? or am I making this too
complicated and there's a better way for me to do it? I want to copy the old
passport drive onto the new one and the new one has tons more space than the
old one does.
Josh
Josh Kennedy
[email protected]
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