| Finding the I.P. address on a mac. |
- Go to the apple in the top left of the screen and click to get a drop down menu.
- From the drop down menu click on System Preferences, this will open the system preferences window.
 - Here you want to click on Network. This will take you to the next screen.
 - Here you will find you I.P. Address. It in the number circled in the above image.
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| Connecting to a server on a mac |
- Press apple key and the k key at the same time.
- This will bring up a new window
- Here you will input your sever address. If you are fruit flowers it will be fruitflowers.com all others it will be aveight.com.
- Then you want to press connect and will bring up a new screen.
- Here you want to input your name and password.
- Press connect and you will be taken to a new screen
- Here you want to select your site and then press ok and you will be connected.
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| Disconnecting from the Server on a mac |
- There are two ways to disconnect from the sever
- If you have a mouse with two button, right click on the icon for the server
- In the drop down that comes up just click Eject "sever name"
- The second way to do it if you have a one button mouse
- Go to file and then in the drop down click on Eject "sever name"
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| Finding the I.P. Address on a Windows XP computer |
- First go to start then control panel
- click on control panel, this will take you to a new window
 - In the next window you want to open up Network Connections
- In the Network Connections window you will want to open up Local Area Connection.
- In this section you will want to click the support tab
- The set of numbers next to IP Address is your IP Address
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| Net Working Windows XP with Mac OS X |
Information you will need to know
- The IP Address of your of both computers [Mac] [Windows]
- The workgroup the PC is in (Right click on My Computer, select Properties, and select the Computer Name tab)
- The Widows pc has a password set for it.
Next you need to do
- You need to put your Mac in the same workgroup as your Windows PC.
- Open “Directory Access” (Applications > Utilities > Directory Access).
- Click on the padlock in the bottom left corner to make changes; you will be prompted for your password.
- If “SMB” is not ticked off, then tick it off. Select “SMB.”
- Hit the “Configure” button.
- Now enter the name of your Windows workgroup. Shown here it is “AD”.
Next you need to set up the PC to share files
- Create and Share a folder on your PC.
- To do this create a folder (or select and existing one) right click on it from Windows Explorer
- Select “Properties”, select the “Sharing” tab and share out the folder.
Setting up the Mac to share files
- Open “System Preferences” (Applications > System Preferences).
- Go to “Sharing” under “Internet & Network”, and tick off “Windows Sharing”
- If it doesn't’t start by itself, click “Start”. This will share out your entire home folder.
- If You're running Tiger (10.4), you will also need to click the "Accounts" button and tick off the box next to your account name so that OS X knows to share out your particular home folder.
 Accessing your Mac from your PC
- Click “Start > Run” and enter “\\I.P. Address of your Mac\Short username of your OS X account ” [ex: \\999.999.9.9\johndoe]
- When asked to authenticate enter your Mac accounts short user name and password.
- You should now be able to see you entire home folder on your OS X system.
- You can also map this share like you would any other Windows network share so that it is accessible from a drive letter.
Accessing your PC from your Mac
- To mount a Windows share on your Mac, click on your desktop so that Finder is the active application.
- From the Finder menu “Go > Connect to Server”.
- In the “Server Address” field enter “smb://I.P. Address of your PC/name of windows share folder ”
- When asked to authenticate enter the name of your PC in “Workgroup/Domain” (Unless your PC is part of a domain and your PC account is held on a domain controller, in which case enter the domain that you normally log on to Windows with).
- For “Username” and “Password” enter the username and password which you use to log on to your Windows machine with.
- Click ok and your shared folder should be mounted as a network drive on your desktop.
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| Windows cannot open files sent from a Mac |
If you are sending a file from a Mac PC to a Windows PC and Windows cannot open it, make sure the file has a file extension. Example: text.txt, the .txt is the file extension or picture.jpg, the .jpg is the file extension.
- Set Mac OS X to display file extensions
- Select Preference in the Finder Menu
- Select Advanced
- Select Show All File Extensions
Remember when naming your files windows cannot handle, slashes / and \, the equal sign =, the plus sign +, the angle brackets < and >, questions marks ?, semicolons ;, quotation marks ", and commas ,. Also avoid spaces the beginning and end of a file name, and the period should only go before the file extension and no where else in the name.
| Windows Safe |
Not Safe |
04-04-04.doc
06_06_06.xls
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04/04/04
06.06.06.xls |
Also remember if you are sending compressed archives from Mac to Windows PC, that windows does not open the Mac SIT or SITX files formats natively. Windows can open ZIP files though, which OS X 10.3 can create.
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| Sharing files though E-mail |
Sometimes sharing files though e-mail from Mac to Windows or Vice-Versa can cause problems. Remember when sending files from Mac to Windows that windows needs the file extension to open, and must not have any of the items a windows file name cannot handle. (As explained in Windows cannot open files sent from a Mac).
Also the problem from Mac to Windows could be in your email settings.
Apple Mail
- Select Send Windows Friendly Attachments
Entourage
- Open Preferences
- Select Compose under Mail & News Preferences
- Click on the Encode for Menu
- Choose Windows (MIME/Base64)
- Also turn off Compression, by selecting None in the Compression drop-down menu.
From Windows to Mac
If you are receiving a file called winmail.dat from a Windows Computer is it a Word file. Which during the transfer from Outlook was converted in to the winmail file.
You can download a program called TNEF's Enough which will allow you to extract Mac-usable file from the winmail.dat attachment.
On the Windows side to fix this problem, one can turn off RTF in Outlook
- Choose Tools
- Options
- Select the Mail format Tab
- Specify Plain Text in the Send In This Message Format List
- Click Ok
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| Sharing files through disks on Mac and Windows |
If you want to share files though a flash/thumb/USB drive or external hard drive remember to have these items formatted for FAT32, which both Windows and Macs can read. Just remember to be careful not to format a drive while files on it or they will be erased.
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