Hi

I am afraid to tell you the truth, but actually I am a Win User!! But just
now, I am switching to Linux. Better than Win? definetely!! Nevertheless I
hope, you will help me.

1) I have a little network at home, 'cause I am connected through ADSL (via
Linux router) to the Internet. My girlfriend has G4 notebook and now I will
connect her notebook to the internet, but I can't find where the system
settings are (I need to tell the computer which IP it has to use as
gateway).

2) I want to transfer some large files (Images) from her notebook to mine
(Mac -> Win) and I have no idea how to do it with a mac. Alternatively I can
install a ssh client on the mac and transfer the files via Linux (scp, like
Putty or SSH Secure Shell) to my Win notebook.

is there a real chance to solve my problem? not to have a conflict with
newsgroups. Any help infos are welcome and I actually do not need a whole
manual as answer, for example just a good documentation site for mac will
help me also...

thanks in advance
greets
mirco

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:20:09 +0200, "Mirco" <mirco9@gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I am afraid to tell you the truth, but actually I am a Win User!! But just
>now, I am switching to Linux. Better than Win? definetely!! Nevertheless I
>hope, you will help me.
>
>1) I have a little network at home, 'cause I am connected through ADSL (via
>Linux router) to the Internet. My girlfriend has G4 notebook and now I will
>connect her notebook to the internet, but I can't find where the system
>settings are (I need to tell the computer which IP it has to use as
>gateway).
>
>2) I want to transfer some large files (Images) from her notebook to mine
>(Mac -> Win) and I have no idea how to do it with a mac. Alternatively I can
>install a ssh client on the mac and transfer the files via Linux (scp, like
>Putty or SSH Secure Shell) to my Win notebook.
>
>is there a real chance to solve my problem? not to have a conflict with
>newsgroups. Any help infos are welcome and I actually do not need a whole
>manual as answer, for example just a good documentation site for mac will
>help me also...
>
1) You can set IP settings in the Network system preference... System
Preferences can be started up from the Apple menu. Also worth knowing
about: /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility

2) Mac OS X (10.1 and later-- I assume she's got 10.2) supports SMB
networking, which is the Windows standard, also supported by Linux. If
file sharing is turned on on the Windows (or Linux) system, on the
Mac, click on the Finder's Go menu, then Connect to Server. With luck
(and OS X 10.2) it will find the PC and show it in the list of
servers... if not, in the Address field, enter something like:

smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx replacing the xxx.etc with the PC's IP
address. Click Connect.

You'll be asked for log-in name and password, and then to choose a
shared folder (if multiple folders are shared).

That will give a drive icon on the Mac desktop-- this can be opened;
this will allow the Mac user to copy files from the PC to the Mac, and
from the Mac to the PC.

Mirco wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am afraid to tell you the truth, but actually I am a Win User!! But just
> now, I am switching to Linux. Better than Win? definetely!! Nevertheless I
> hope, you will help me.
>
> 1) I have a little network at home, 'cause I am connected through ADSL
> (via Linux router) to the Internet. My girlfriend has G4 notebook and now
> I will connect her notebook to the internet, but I can't find where the
> system settings are (I need to tell the computer which IP it has to use as
> gateway).
>
> 2) I want to transfer some large files (Images) from her notebook to mine
> (Mac -> Win) and I have no idea how to do it with a mac. Alternatively I
> can install a ssh client on the mac and transfer the files via Linux (scp,
> like Putty or SSH Secure Shell) to my Win notebook.
>
> is there a real chance to solve my problem? not to have a conflict with
> newsgroups. Any help infos are welcome and I actually do not need a whole
> manual as answer, for example just a good documentation site for mac will
> help me also...
>
> thanks in advance
> greets
> mirco


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19652

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/

http://hornware.com/sharepoints/

"Mirco" <mirco9@gmx.net> writes:
>
> I am afraid to tell you the truth, but actually I am a Win User!!
> But just now, I am switching to Linux. Better than Win? definetely!!
> Nevertheless I hope, you will help me.

Your intro is off-topic, but I'll ignore it.

> 1) I have a little network at home, 'cause I am connected through
> ADSL (via Linux router) to the Internet. My girlfriend has G4
> notebook and now I will connect her notebook to the internet, but I
> can't find where the system settings are (I need to tell the
> computer which IP it has to use as gateway).

If she is running OS 9, look for the "Control Panel" on the Apple
menu. The panel for network settings is TCP/IP.

If she is running OS X, launch the System Preferences program. By
default, it's in the Dock. If it's not there, look in the
/Applications directory. Once System Preferences is open, select the
"Network" icon to view/edit the settings.

> 2) I want to transfer some large files (Images) from her notebook to
> mine (Mac -> Win) and I have no idea how to do it with a
> mac. Alternatively I can install a ssh client on the mac and
> transfer the files via Linux (scp, like Putty or SSH Secure Shell)
> to my Win notebook.

It's definitely easier with OS X. It gives you several options:

1: Export the Windows drive and mount it from MacOS (using
Go->Connect To Server from The Finder menu).

2: Enable Windows file sharing on the Mac, (from the Sharing page of
System Preferences) and mount it from Windows. What you have
access to will depend on what you're logged in as. If the Windows
user logs in as an administrator, it can access everything. If it
logs in as a normal user, it can access everything in that user's
home directory (plus read-only access to all users' public folders
and write-only access to all users' drop box folders.). If it
logs in as guest, then it will only have access to public folders
and drop boxes.

3: Enable FTP access on the Mac (from the Sharing page of System
Preferences) and use your favorite FTP client to login and
transfer files.

4: If you have an FTP server for Windows (or if you've enabled the one
that comes with most Linux distributions), you can use your
favorite Mac FTP client or the command-line client (from a Terminal
window).

Have fun.

-- David