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[matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

Wow!  So much Mac stuff, and me with very little time to respond.  
Please forgive curtness.

On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Sil Greene wrote:

> 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.

I believe this CIFS is the same thing as a Samba (SMB) share.  If it is 
available on the network, then once the Mac joins the network, it 
should show up as a network drive.

> 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.

Hopefully, s/he could just drop and drag (or copy) the files to the SMB 
share.

> So I guess this boils down to:
>
> (1) How do I open a terminal?

In Finder, choose Applications, then Utilities.  Double-click Terminal. 
 I like the Terminal icon in my Dock, 'cause I use it all-day everyday.

> (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}?

See above, but choose Network Utility.  It does it all.  Also, all 
these things live in the Terminal.app just like Linux/Unix.

> (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?

Should be as simple as opening the Finder and choosing the appropriate 
disk from the left-hand column.  You would only need to enable Samba 
sharing if you wanted to use a drive on the Mac as a Samba share, but 
not to use another Samba share.  Regardless, any and all network items 
you'd need would be in System Preferences.  From where?  You guessed it 
-- "the Applications folder."

Oh, the joys of Macintosh.

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

As a last resort maybe...

dave ;)