Network WinXP with iMac

Does anyone have experience connecting Windows and Mac machines. Can I connect an XP machine (or 98SE for that matter) and my iMac just by using an ethernet cable? If so, I guess, since there's only one port on the back of the machine, that means I'd have to unplug from my cable router every time I want to do this(?). It's a naive quiestion, but can I just buy some sort of splitter or something for the cable? Any and all recommendations would certainly be appreciated and respected.

1. Yes. See this page for information on sharing files.
2. Purchase a router and hook the cable modem into that; next, plug both computers into the router.
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Apologies if this is the wrong area of the forums....
I have a lovely MacBook, and I have a fabulous iMac (24" running Leopard). They both currently live in the same room, but the iMac has some external harddrives connected that host my house music collection.
I'm sure that there's a simple way of doing this but I've not worked it out yet, but is there a way of getting the two of them talking wirelessly so that I can access the files on the external drives with my MacBook?
Thanks for reading and hopefully helping!

On your iMac (or both computers if you want to share both ways) go to system preferences>sharing and check all the items you wish to share with the other computers on your network. Also make sure there is a name for the computer. The one item in particular that you're needing to check, specific to your post, is 'File Sharing'. Now depending on how many accounts and their account types, you may have to determine the access allowed. You can change users and their access in the right side of the window. Find this information in the window, "Other users can connect......", you need to note the afp://numbers.
Now to access the computer from another computer, if you have Leopard when you open a Finder window the computer will probably show under 'Shared'. Just select it and then 'Connect As'. If you're using Tiger, open Finder and go to Go Menu>Connect To Server. In the field Server Address you need to enter in the information you got previously (afp://numbers). Then it will ask for User Name and Password and then what disk to mount (could be external drive, internal drive, home folder, etc).

Networking iBook with iMac

I have an iMac G5 connected to an ADSL high speed internet connection. I recently purchased an iBook for travel and wanted to connect it to my iMac wirelessly - for internet and email. However, after following the support on the Mac site and trying to connect the two I don't seem to be able get any signal to the iBook.
Questions: Does the iMac have the ability to transmit signals with its airport card? Do I need to have a separate external Airport station to make this happen? Can I access the internet and mail through this wireless connection? From all that I read and was told it should be fairly easy but I just haven't been able to make it happen. Thanks.

Hi Peter,
Here're the instructions for sharing an internet connection from Mac Help.
Sharing your Internet connection
If your computer is connected to the Internet, you can share its connection with other computers on your local network.
For example, if your computer is connected to the Internet using a DSL modem and has an AirPort Card installed, you can share the DSL connection with other AirPort-equipped computers.
     1      Open System Preferences, click Sharing, and then click Internet.
     2      Choose a network port from the "Share your connection from" pop-up menu.
     3      Select "Built-in Ethernet" or AirPort depending on which computers will share your Internet connection.
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Hi you know i can't make the MIDI connection network from my iMac to my iPad 3 appears 192.168.1.69:5004 refused the connection request. ill appreciate so much your help I'm trying to do it with the animoog for iPad

hi you know i can't make the MIDI connection network from my iMac to my iPad 3 appears 192.168.1.69:5004 refused the connection request. ill appreciate so much your help I'm trying to do it with the animoog for iPad

Hi James and welcome.....
Try the help here for Windows 7.
iTunes for Windows: iTunes cannot contact the iPhone, iPad, or iPod software update server
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IPad2 won't sync with iMac...only my iphone4 shows in the device window on my iMac. For some reason it will not detect my iPad via my wireless network!

iPad2 won't sync with iMac and only my iphone4 shows in the devices window on my iMac. For some reason it will not detect my iPad via my wireless network! The iPad will sync when plugged into the Mac however looses connection and disappears from the device window when unplugged.

Jayplus wrote:
I have a D-Link WBR-2310 and already bought an external antenna which cost me additional. Besides moving my iMac, what options do I have?
You already have a wireless router or have just bought one, or do you have an ad hoc connection from iMac to AppleTV?
If things worked in the other location this all point to poor network performance/connectivity. It may be the connection is intermittently lost - small files transfer ok, but interruptions during longer transfers scupper the process.
Interference from cordless phone bases or microwaves (and neighbours devices) might also cause connectivity issues.
Signal strength bars are often not that useful, but will indicate connection to the main wireless device they connect to - so AppleTv may have a good connection to the router but a poor iMac connection to router is not displayed by AppleTV which only shows the connection to the first device in the chain.
You could consider some home mains newtorking plugs such as those made by Devolo but they usually have to be on the same mains ring.

How can i set up a wireless network from my iMac lion, with a windows 7??

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In order to do this you should have a router. Once you have a router and both computers on the network then you will need to turn on File Sharing on the Mac. You can locate Sharing in System Preferences - Sharing. On the PC it has a similar function but typical of MS Windows much more arcane and complex. First thing you will need to know is what version of MS Windows you have, then you can Google something like "File sharing OS X Lion with Windows 7" and you will find lots of instructions.

Network Users with network homes not really working for me

I have with great pain setup a OS X Lion server on a Mac Mini that was supposed to be my central server to have 4 network users accounts and all the users data is stored on an external disk array with mounted network homes to the 2 iMacs and 2 Macbooks I have in my home.
I have gotten it all working and all my Macs are joined to the Open Directory and each User can login as a network users on any of the Macs and get their files via mounted home directory from the server. The home directories on the server are backed up with Time Machine.
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If i can't resolve this I'll go back to have network users with local home directories on each Mac and just setup for each user a network share to which they copy files if they want them available on other Macs. Not as nice but at least it works!
As a said note I did this to make things easier but it has up to now cost me trouble then i had before!

Haven't heard anything from anybody so probably to daunting a topic ...
I have now moved on to try Portable Home Directories (PHD) and syncing ... what a disaster!
First it took me ages to get this right as the way the home directores are mounted on the clients from the server it's just weired which has to do with how AFP mounts are implemented. Since one AFP mount can't be mounted by several users on the same system they use a workaround of mounting it to a temp directory and then linking it back to where it should be. Of course this causes major problems.
Okay it kind of worked so let's move on to syncing PHD. First of all on initial creation it only sync a small portion of the directory that should be okay but on some of my accounts it never went passed this stage. It said it's all synced but it only had synced the first 10% or so of the data. I wasn't able to make it sync anymore.
On other accounts it correctly synced all the data down, or so I thought. Apparently a few sync session back and forth and 50-60% of the data was gone. On further investigation it turned out to be iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Turns out does don't sync probably via Home Sync!!!
Apple product is not able to probably syncing Apple specific library files!!!!
So here my warning to everybody: DO NOT USE PHD and HOME SYNC to sync your data as you will lose stuff if you have iTunes and/or iPhoto libraries with Lion OS X Server!!!
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is it possible to add a second monitor via mac mini with iMac
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Safari load image problem with iMac Intel core

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You're right, I'm puzzled by the imac.
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(office:) fixed-ip, ADSL modem -> firewall -> Linksys wireless router -> ppc imac (wireless)
both network setting with manual assigned IP, gateway and same DNS
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May someone with same machine help to open this web to see if all intel imac get the same result?

HP Photosmart scanner not recognized with IMAC OSX 10.9.3

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Sharing a network connection with an Ipad2

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Well duh - no. I misread the question. I share the Internet connection from my iMac which is connected to the Internet via Ethernet cable to the modem.
The iPad shares my iMac's Internet connection through internet sharing. The iPad is not connected to my Mac with the USB cable. Brain clot! But is it not possible to share the connection via Internet sharing in the Windows world?
Sorry to the OP!

Time Capsule 4 gen. with iMac OS X Lion 3 Windows PC (XP OS, Vista OS, Seven OS) cable modem with TC as Wi-Fi. Time Machine on iMac found TC for backup easily. Have Wi-Fi access on PC XP with Airport utility but cannot create TC.

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