Mac OS X Tips of the Week: File Share between Mac/Windows

Yes i am a Mac/Windows user, placing myself in the middle of two OS is not a very disaster now, but some pains would sometimes occur. The major one would be how you could share your files in either systems to another through networking.

Here is the tip,
( Source from: http://macs.about.com/cs/tipstutorials/a/xp_osx_sharing.htm)

To share files on a Windows XP computer and a Mac OS X computer, you can enable File Sharing to create a common folder accessible on both computers.

On Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger:
Click on System Preferences - Sharing
Make sure the Services tab is selected
Click to check Windows Sharing ( if you got more than one login account, please choose the desinated one you want to share)
Note your Mac's IP address at the bottom of the window


On Windows XP:
Click on Start - Search
Click on Computers or people - A computer on the network
Enter the Mac's IP address that you noted above
Enter your OS X username and password
You can add this shared window to your favourite by "Add to favourite" in IE, so you don't really have to type in the IP everytime you connect to your macintosh folder

Set up a shared folder on XP:
Right-click on the folder to be shared
Click on Properties
Click on the Sharing tab
Click on Share this folder on the network (so the folder can be read by the Mac)
Click on Allow network users to change my files (so the folder can be written-to by the Mac)
Click on Apply
Click on OK


Access the shared XP folder from OS X:
Click on Finder - Go - Connect to Server
Click on the Server and PC to connect
Click on Connect
Enter your Mac username and password
Click on OK
Select the name of the shared folder to access
Click on OK


Your shared XP folder now appears on the Mac desktop, allowing you to copy files from XP or OS X to the folder and retrieve them on the other computer.

O Yes, and that is it, enjoy your cross-OS surfing!