PC and Mac via Crossover Cable

[senorcarne]

I have a custom built Vista 64 PC and a MacBook.

They are both on a network of four computers. The Macbook can usually see every computer except for my windows one. My PC can see every computer, except the Mac - sometimes it can see it though.

I bought a Crossover Ethernet Cable to hook directly into the Macbook and the PC. The PC sees it as a private unnamed network, the Mac knows it's plugged into both ethernet and airport.

Why can't the computers see each other still? I need to transfer files constantly between the two computers.

 

[valve1138]

If you're Macbook is running Leopard then go into the Network Preferences, click advanced, and then go to the WINS tab. There's a drop down for Workgroup. I've found that entering the specific workgroup name helps that issue.

Also, go into Sharing and set file sharing to use SMB sharing.