I’ve always wanted to set up a wireless network in my house ever since I got a new laptop with and my pc’s hard drive was filling up. When I set up my internet wirelessly throught via router, I knew it was time to start sharing and transfering all my files from my PC to my Mac wirelessly. Many find it easy to set up their wireless internet network around their home or office, but have a hard time setting up the network in order for file sharing to occur. In this particular blog I will explain how simple and easy it is for you to share files wirelessly from your Mac to your PC.

1. Right click on your My Computer icon on your desktop and click on properties. Note: If you do not have the icon on your desktop it should appear in your start menu.
2. When the properties box appears, click on the “Computer Name” tab.
3. Click on the “Change” button located on the bottom right hand corner of the tab.
4. Enter your computer name and workgroup which you would like to keep.
5. Once this is done you will need to restart your computer in order for the changes to take place.

After the above steps are completed you are done with setting up your network from your Windows PC.
You will now need to select the files from your hard drive which you would like to share over the wireless network. Make sure your wireless network is secure with a password so that no unauthorized user is able to access your files which are being shared over your network. Once this is done you will now need to move over to your Mac.

1. Click on Finder which can be found in your dock.
2. On the upper left hand corner you will see “Network”. Clicking on this will further show you all the networks which are being shared over your wireless network.
3. Click on the Workgroup name which should be displayed in the list. This was earlier set in the above instructions when on the PC.
4. You will now see a list of computers which are connected to that workgroupl, one of them being your PC.
5. Click on the name of your PC and click connect.
6. It will ask you for your network administrator password which you have set to access administrator applications on your Mac.

You are now done and have successfully set up a wireless network between a Mac and a PC.

NOTE: The above blog is for networking between a PC and Mac OS X Tiger!!!

Tags: wireless, network, connecting, mac, pc, file sharing