Network with 1 Mac and 1 XP pc

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syf277

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Hi guys,
Iam new to this forum, and fairly new to hands on networking (my theory is fairly solid though), this is my first post after searching rather extensively.

Well now, the predicament i am in:

I have a netgear WPN824v2 router with my laptop connected to it wireless, and a mac connected using wired ethernet. I am trying to do two things:

1)monitor network traffic, i.e. which packets are going where
2)access the apple mac somehow from my pc (i can ping it though) tried using "run" and the //"apple mac name" but no luck here..

I have sieved through pages and pages of info, none of which refers to this scenario even remotely. The PERFMON command in XP will not work either i just tried it, it wont even find the Mac computer.

I am sure one of you helpfull guys can shed some light on this fairly unconventional setup.

thanks in advance guys..

syf277.
 
whats up, first thing is first and you need to enable SMB on your Mac. Windows uses SMB for all networking and Mac uses the open source version called Samba.

So on your mac go to system preferences > sharing > and make sure windows file sharing is checked. On top of that you must enable an account because SMB requires authentication.

Now you should be able to simply do a \\ip.of.the.mac in any explorer window to pull it up.

A great free open source utility for file sharing on the mac is called share points, it will automatically configure the smb.conf file for you.

you can get it here:

http://www.hornware.com/

Now in sharepoints (the app i linked above) you can assign the mac to a workgroup which should allow you to browse over the network browser.

As for monitoring network traffic, littlesnitch is a good one and there is a plethora of *nix ports on the mac which IMO are better than most of the windows based ones.

If you have any further mac questions this particular forum is geared more towards PC users and gamers. I would suggest you check out the forums of this site, which I am also a member of

www.osxhints.com

Its a great resource
 
Cheerz for that mate, much appreciated. read through some of the posts on that forum, its not a bad one..

thanks again pal.
 
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