[c41]

Hiya, whats the easiest way to transfer files (in this case about 1gb of photos) from 1 mac to another - across town? both macs have leopard. neither of us have a .mac account (and because this is a once in a blue moon need - we dont want one)

Ideally what I'm looking for is my buddies home folder mounted in my finder.

i take it its something to do with the sharing panel...
any help greatly appreciated.

cheers,
pete

[MacNNUK]

Copy files to CD / DVD and post !

or...

I suggest you place both macs in same room, and use "T" target mode for initial transfer.

[Cold Warrior]

If you're just across town, burning them to DVD and driving it over would work well.

In reference to over the internet, however: You should turn on FTP on your buddy's computer, then upload your pictures to them (or vice versa if he has the pics). If the FTP computer is behind a router, you may have to configure port forwarding.

[c41]

thanks guys. yeah have just burnt DVD's previously - but thought that was a bit of a waste if it was easy enough just to copy them across.
will give the ftp thing a go cheers

[mduell]

FolderShare is a lot easier than FTP; you don't have to worry about NAT and dynamic IPs, etc. Just add the folder as a library on both computers and it will keep everything in the folder in sync.

[besson3c]

secure copy (scp)