[Proudest Monkey]

Hello All

Networking is something that is definitely new to me. However, after this semester winds down my roommates and i were thinking of connecting all of our computers to share music. This involves an iMac/600, a Compaq Laptop, and an older Gateway. We have our cable modem for internet and our hub ready set up and going. We have not been able to access each others computers though. Basically we all want to share our music folders so we don't have to transfer them through AIM or MSN Messenger. What are some of the first steps we need to do to make this happen?

Thanks

[bradoesch]

On the PCs, go into the Network control panel and enable sharing. Once you've done that, find the drive or directory they want to share, right click it and choose sharing. Now, I think the easiest way to transfer music is for you to connect to their computer, send all of your music to them, and then grab theirs. They can exchange music between themselves. It's kinda tricky to share with OS X, because you can't easily share specific directories, and I've never been able to get a Windows 98 computer to connect to my Mac. If they're running Win2K or XP they should be able to.


Brad