help with Sharing from my Pc to My Ibook..

homerj14 · 03-02-2006, 02:52 PM

hey well what Im doing now its transfering my Music from my PC to my Ibook so I can use it as a Storage they are both on a wireless Network Im doing this because I want to not use space on my PC's HDD so what i want to do is make a folder on My ibook which I can acess from my PC to stream Music over.. the Thing is I can easily acess my Pc from my Ibook But I dont know how to acess my Ibook from my PC!

macdude425 · 03-02-2006, 05:28 PM

Go to System Preferences-Sharing and turn on Windows Sharing.

homerj14 · 03-03-2006, 02:19 AM

yea thats done but where can i get a folder to set it up with

homerj14 · 03-03-2006, 03:25 AM

like when i go on my laptop to acess my music folder from my Pc I just go to my MsHome network from the Ibook and the Music folder shows because I set the folder to be used as sharing but i cant find a way to do this on the Ibook

macdude425 · 03-03-2006, 08:18 AM

You mean you still cannot access the iBook from the PC?

Start-Run-\\(servername or IP)

homerj14 · 03-04-2006, 02:49 AM

Yea i dont know How.. i have all my music transfered to my Mac but i want to acess it from my PC streaming it Over.. how do I know my Ibooks Ip?

The General · 03-04-2006, 02:56 AM

have you tried sharing your music with itunes and getting itunes on the PC to pick it up, it'd be pretty easy..

homerj14 · 03-04-2006, 03:20 AM

dude as long as I can store my music on my Ibook and stream it over I really Dont care

homerj14 · 03-04-2006, 03:26 AM

but I prefer to Use Winamp.

homerj14 · 03-04-2006, 03:45 PM

well I figured it out by turning remote desktop On and it now shows the network folder

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