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I'd like to transfer some files from my imac/400 to my new ibook - imac is running 10.3, while the ibook has 10.4 - they are side by side and was wondering what do I do from here? I have an ethernet cable if that will do.
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It gets really easy after this, but first things first. What kind of Ethernet Cable do you have? Patch or Crossover? The Crossover cable can be used to do a direct connection between the two. A Patch cable has to go through a hub.
After that, Jump into "Sharing" in the prefs on both machines, and turn on personal file sharing. Then you can use the "Go" menu on the menu bar, select Connect to Server, and the window should find your other machine just fine. Double click, plug in the Username and Password, and you're good to go.
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
It gets really easy after this, but first things first. What kind of Ethernet Cable do you have? Patch or Crossover? The Crossover cable can be used to do a direct connection between the two. A Patch cable has to go through a hub.
After that, Jump into "Sharing" in the prefs on both machines, and turn on personal file sharing. Then you can use the "Go" menu on the menu bar, select Connect to Server, and the window should find your other machine just fine. Double click, plug in the Username and Password, and you're good to go.
Firewire sharing is faster or use "Target Mode" even easier!
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worked perfectly - thanks
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You won't need a crossover cable to connect any recently modern Mac (not sure how modern but my iBook 500 works) to another computer through ethernet. The Mac's ethernet port will automatically detect what it needs to do, even if you're connected to a PC (with their non-automactic ports).
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That occured to me moments after I hit the reply button. I wasn't sure which macs had it though, and which did not. I guess it's standard across the line (Unfortunately, My G4 400 AGP was a model too early.)
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Originally Posted by Thinine
You won't need a crossover cable to connect any recently modern Mac (not sure how modern but my iBook 500 works) to another computer through ethernet. The Mac's ethernet port will automatically detect what it needs to do, even if you're connected to a PC (with their non-automactic ports).
Yeah, *recent* macs have auto sensing ports so you can hook them up to another computer using just a patch cable.
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im having problems with my "crossover" connection. i have gigabit ethernets on both the pb and my pc so it should be faster than firewire. for the past month i've had my pb able to access shared files on my pc though my wireless network using the smb://........ thing and just made aliases and stuff. i'm using a patch cable to connect the two computers now, and i've manually set the IPs. i am able to use an FTP program on my mac to get files from the PC (with an FTP server program running), and i'm getting "only" 26megs/s (shouldn't gigabit be 100megs/s?). anyways, I was wondering if I can get my powerbook to access my pc with the smb:// thing only using the crossover cable instead of the wireless. I've tried connecting to the IP I created for the cable, but it doesn't find anything. so for now i'm stuck with using FTP. if anyone can help that would be awesome.
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Originally Posted by Darthmaul4114
im having problems with my "crossover" connection. i have gigabit ethernets on both the pb and my pc so it should be faster than firewire. for the past month i've had my pb able to access shared files on my pc though my wireless network using the smb://........ thing and just made aliases and stuff. i'm using a patch cable to connect the two computers now, and i've manually set the IPs. i am able to use an FTP program on my mac to get files from the PC (with an FTP server program running), and i'm getting "only" 26megs/s (shouldn't gigabit be 100megs/s?). anyways, I was wondering if I can get my powerbook to access my pc with the smb:// thing only using the crossover cable instead of the wireless. I've tried connecting to the IP I created for the cable, but it doesn't find anything. so for now i'm stuck with using FTP. if anyone can help that would be awesome.
One thing at a time. First, "only" 26Mbps is pretty darn fast, and it is a reasonable speed. 100Mbps is a theoretical maximum for 100BaseT ethernet, and it discounts such things as errors and management overhead. Additionally, the connection will only be as fast as BOTH ends can handle-if one side is only 10/100, then you're not going to get anything near "gigabit" (1000BaseT) speeds. What you're getting is fine.
You should be able to use a patch cable to share files between the two computers using the same setup you're using now.
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You don't need a patch cable or any special cable at all. The PowerBook will automatically know what to do if you connect it to the PC. If you this, however, be sure to manually set your PowerBook's subnet mask (in the network preferences) since Windows defaults to a different value. Then you should be able to connect fine, as I've done this exact thing a couple times.
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Originally Posted by Thinine
You don't need a patch cable or any special cable at all. The PowerBook will automatically know what to do if you connect it to the PC. If you this, however, be sure to manually set your PowerBook's subnet mask (in the network preferences) since Windows defaults to a different value. Then you should be able to connect fine, as I've done this exact thing a couple times.
The term "patch cable" usually refers to a straight ethernet cable, as opposed to a "crossover cable" which swaps the positions of the transmit and receive pairs in an ethernet cable. But the PowerBook will indeed figure it out for itself.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
One thing at a time. First, "only" 26Mbps is pretty darn fast, and it is a reasonable speed. 100Mbps is a theoretical maximum for 100BaseT ethernet, and it discounts such things as errors and management overhead. Additionally, the connection will only be as fast as BOTH ends can handle-if one side is only 10/100, then you're not going to get anything near "gigabit" (1000BaseT) speeds. What you're getting is fine.
You should be able to use a patch cable to share files between the two computers using the same setup you're using now.
i do have gigabit at both ends. im trying to get it to work through the SMB thing instead of having to use FTP, its much easier that way
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