Mac and PC network help

Hi

I have just had BB installed and have a wired connection to my iMac (OSX) and a
wireless card in my PC laptop. I am having trouble setting up home network via
my Netgear 834G router. Both machines connect to the internet fine but I can't
get them to see each other.

Any ideas?

thanks

On 29 Sep 2004 15:14:04 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (MRickardUK) wrote:

>I have just had BB installed and have a wired connection to my iMac (OSX) and a
>wireless card in my PC laptop. I am having trouble setting up home network via
>my Netgear 834G router. Both machines connect to the internet fine but I can't
>get them to see each other.

Can each machine be pinged from the other? Have you local firewall
facilties preventing each talking to the other? Version of Windows?

--
Hiram Hackenbacker

Windows XP, am able to ping but nothing else - no local firewall facilites.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) (MRickardUK) wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just had BB installed and have a wired connection to my iMac (OSX) and
> a
> wireless card in my PC laptop. I am having trouble setting up home network
> via
> my Netgear 834G router. Both machines connect to the internet fine but I
> can't
> get them to see each other.
>
> Any ideas?


I recently got a cheap PC for the kids and I can't get it to see my Mac
either, nor vice versa. Annoyingly, it works fine at work where I have
several Macs and PCs sharing with each other although they log into a
domain rather than workgroup.

In the end, I turned on FTP sharing on the Mac and connected that way.
Worked first time. My router blocks external FTP connections so no
worries in that respect.

On 29 Sep 2004 , in uk.telecom.broadband, MRickardUK wrote:

>Windows XP, am able to ping but nothing else - no local firewall facilites.

Then in what way do you expect them to 'see' one another ?

If you run a web server, or FTP server on one, the other should see
it, but much depends on what you are expecting to do. Not having a
recent Mac (last time I had a Mac on my desk was 1988!) it's rather
difficult to guess what you're expecting to do with the two. PGM

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On 29 Sep 2004 , in uk.telecom.broadband, MRickardUK wrote:
>
> >Windows XP, am able to ping but nothing else - no local firewall facilites.
>
> Then in what way do you expect them to 'see' one another ?
>
> If you run a web server, or FTP server on one, the other should see
> it, but much depends on what you are expecting to do. Not having a
> recent Mac (last time I had a Mac on my desk was 1988!) it's rather
> difficult to guess what you're expecting to do with the two. PGM

MacOS X does Windows networking (SAMBA).