LAN with MAC and PC

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If I create a single broadcast domain with a mixture of PC's and MAC's, how
can they share files? Would I have to toss in a simple file server? There's
no Internet access.. Just a LAN

THANKS....
 
mikey said:
If I create a single broadcast domain with a mixture of PC's and
MAC's, how
can they share files? Would I have to toss in a simple file server?
There's no Internet access.. Just a LAN

THANKS....
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OS X uses Samba. You don't need a file server to share files, just a
switch.

Some useful links on Windows networking:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/howto/
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm
http://www.tomsnetworking.com
http://www.wown.info/
http://www.ezlan.net/index.html
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/

A Google for "Mac Windows sharing" brings up a lot of links. Here are a
few:

http://www.macwindows.com/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/windows/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1161.html

Malke
 
Malke said:
OS X uses Samba. You don't need a file server to share files, just a
switch.
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Why a switch? And reading a couple of your links, they seem to imply that
the MAC has to give it's address to the PC.. What if the LAN is 2 PC's and 4
MAC's?

Last but not least, can you give me a link on Samba?

<school project ;[D
 
Why a switch? And reading a couple of your links, they seem to imply
that
the MAC has to give it's address to the PC.. What if the LAN is 2 PC's
and 4 MAC's?

Last but not least, can you give me a link on Samba?

<school project ;[D
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I prefer a switch instead of a hub because switches are "intelligent"
and route traffic to the computer where it is supposed to go. Hubs are
dumb and send traffic to everything.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=difference+between+hub+and+switch&btnG=Google+Search

It doesn't matter how many computers are on the lan and it doesn't
matter what operating systems are on the lan. All machines can share
files/folders if set up properly. My home lan has various flavors of
Windows, SUSE 10.1 machines, and has had an OS X iMac. Since you are
not going to use DHCP (no router, no DHCP server) you will assign
static IP's to all machines.

You really need to learn to use Google for your school project.

http://us2.samba.org/samba/

But you'll do better just reading the Mac's Help files.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Why a switch? And reading a couple of your links, they seem to imply
that
the MAC has to give it's address to the PC.. What if the LAN is 2 PC's
and 4 MAC's?

Last but not least, can you give me a link on Samba?

<school project ;[D
Click to expand...

I prefer a switch instead of a hub because switches are "intelligent"
and route traffic to the computer where it is supposed to go. Hubs are
dumb and send traffic to everything.
Click to expand...

And they divide the available bandwidth thru each port.. Switches devote
the entire bandwidth to a single port it is forwarding frames through. I
understand that
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=difference+between+hub+and+switch&btnG=Google+Search

It doesn't matter how many computers are on the lan and it doesn't
matter what operating systems are on the lan. All machines can share
files/folders if set up properly. My home lan has various flavors of
Windows, SUSE 10.1 machines, and has had an OS X iMac. Since you are
not going to use DHCP (no router, no DHCP server) you will assign
static IP's to all machines.
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Since I've never touched a MAC in my in my life, you are telling me that
MAC also have the network==node type addressing scheme? i.e 127.xxx.xx.x

thnaks, you've been most helpful.. Um, the Samba site you gave me is
informaitive, thank you.. I thought it would have MAC all over it, but it
doesn't.. So Samba must be a 3rd party app that Apple bought to add to it's
OS..

thanks again
 
mikey b from sd wrote:

(much snippage)
Since I've never touched a MAC in my in my life, you are telling me
that
MAC also have the network==node type addressing scheme? i.e
127.xxx.xx.x
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All computers use a standard IP address format. Otherwise, how could any
machines communicate on a network? Most of the web isn't run on Mac or
Windows. IP addressing has nothing to do with the operating system
used.
Um, the Samba site you gave me is informaitive, thank you.. I thought
it would have MAC all over it, but it doesn't.. So Samba must be a 3rd
party app that Apple bought to add to it's OS..
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No, it mustn't. If you'd bothered to actually read any of the
information at samba.org, you'd know that it isn't a "third-party app"
and it isn't owned by Apple. I gave you links to information about
Mac-Windows networking already. You can also use Google to find others.

Malke
 
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