Re: connecting a Mac to a PC
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Alex wrote:
> El Sábado, 5 de Julio de 2003 17:43, Nirmal Govind escribió:
> > Hi.. does anyone know how I can connect my ibook running Debian PPC to a PC
> > running Windows XP so that I can transfer files between the two? Is there a
> > USB cable that can do this? Does the twisted ethernet cable work between a
> > Mac and a PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Use an ethernet cable, doesn't matter if is twisted or don't: ibook's ethernet
> card, does that for you.
>
> About the software, I don't know what to say, cause I never conected against a
> Winbugs machine. Maybe Samba?
Samba will do the job, but it's more oriented to sharing files. I think
MS has recently invented NFS too.
There are also ftp, http and (with putty), scp. Maybe rsync.
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