[PD] Connecting a PC with a Mac for sending data

Ian Smith-Heisters heisters at 0x09.com
Wed Apr 6 07:29:29 CEST 2005


In my experience Macs have an automatic cross-connection jumper thingy
built in. You can use a regular cable to connect a Mac to either another
Mac or even a Windows PC. This worked for me with a G4 Powerbook and a
Windows XP Pro Generic Lappie.

-I

aym3ric wrote:
>>My questions are:
>>
>>Can I connect the computers via ethertnet? How?
> 
> 
> with a cable.
> 
> ...
> 
> one cross-cable
> or
> two straight cables hooked on a hub or switch
> 
> 
>>What do I need to do to setup the ports and IP addresses?
> 
> 
> just make sure it's on the same network
> (same ip range, same netmask ...)
> 
> example:
> pc = 	192.168.0.10
> mac = 	192.168.0.11
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> make sure you don't have any firewall running on both machines, or you
> may not go very far with netsend/netreceive.
> 
> 
> a.
> 
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