mac & pc network
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- warheros
im trying to connect my winxp box to my PB, via network.
i read the PB manual and it says i dont need a crossover? is that right? i dont want to fuck shit up. i dont need a hub do you? just a regular 10/100?
the manual didnt really give direxions either, so im assuming i just plug the 10/100 into their respective connexions and im set?
thanks
- mrdobolina0
Id just go buy a 20 dollar hub. not sure if it would work with crossover cable.
- warheros0
yeah, but i have not $20
hmmm i guess it works on PC's like that so im just going to do it.
- ********0
you CAN connect two macs via ethernet or firewire, so it more depends if the Wintel machine can do it rather than the mac.
- ribit0
It works... Most modern computers (or at least the Mac) will recognise its a crossover situation and switch the ethernet cable polarity automatically whichever cable type you use.
- eyemistisorange0
I'm about to try to do the same with my powerbook, I just bought a cheap dell recently and I was going to try and make that a apple Airport base station or a d-link/linskey (pc) station but I don't know if you can transfer files with the d-link/linskey(pc) like I guess you can with the Airport? Does anybody know if those are just for wireless broadband/dsl stuff or can you transfer files, those are alot cheaper than the Airports but I guess if you can't transfer it might be worth getting the Airport?
- ribit0
They are all the same... (WiFi standard). Once you have a WiFi network running, you setup Windows/Mac File Sharing as usual over that...
- tkmeister0
i have Linksys wireless hub with pc desktop and pb with airport. i set up samba network from pc side to access mac files.
- one2meny0
To get the mac to pick up the windows machine though, make sure you have your windows machine setup for sharing. You have to dig through the control panels and firewire settings and other crap that Microsoft by default sets and then hides in an unintuitive interface to change.
- sparker0
a cross-over cable is required for computer interface to computer interface connection.
a hub, router or switch can be used to eliminate the need for a cross-over cable.
furthermore, i've never heard of any software that effects cable pair order. regardless of ethernet standard used (a or b) for cable pairs, it is a physical assignment of pairs. it is not virtual, nor controlled by the pc in anyway. not without some form of hardware switcher in place to change pair order.
this isn't to say it can't be done. i'd love to see a link to a way to do it...but, in my tcp/ip experience it can't.
beyond that, in know some newer boxes have IEEE 1394 interfaces - this shows up in xp as a 1394 connection.
this allows for direct links between 1394 devices without the need for a cross-over cable.
- ribit0
The crossover cable switching is automatic on newer Macs..it does it within the Mac, auto-sensing that the cables are the right or wrong way... so it copes with either crossover or normal ethernet cables without you having to do a thing.