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["Sil Greene" <quack AT ibiblio.org>]

OK, all you mac-heads.  Here's a practical matter.

Occasionally some friends come over to my house and we play some music. 
That gets recorded to the harddrive of a Mac laptop owned by my friend. 
My house has an open 802.11b/g access point, and my Win2k box has CIFS
shares open for writing.

Assuming the Mac has WiFi capabilities, how do I transfer the recordings
from my friend's Mac to my PC?  I mean step-by-step -- where to look, what
to click on, etc.  Remember that I don't know enough to open a terminal in
OSX, but I do have basic UNIX familiarity.  So I guess this boils down to:

(1) How do I open a terminal?

(2) What control panels do I use to check if the network is up and
running; or what commandline tools would give me the equivalent of
{ipconfig/ifconfig, ping, traceroute/tracert}?

(3) What OSX built-in tools, if any, allow network share browsing?  Do I
have to activate any special network mode or software (eg Samba) or do I
have to install any special software (eg Samba) to do this, or is OSX
capable of this out-of-the-box?

or ...

(3a) Should I just install an FTP server on the PC and use that?


--Sil