Networked a Mac and PC, any way to monitor what's going on?

Vinny

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Ok, so my brother got it up and running perfectly fine using his Mac and it's been working well for over a week.

Now we're trying to figure out if there's a way to monitor who is getting what from me? I'm upstairs and receive the weakest signal, so if either one downloads from me my net speeds are SLOOOOOOOW.

Old post and now irrelevant:

My PC is a Goliath of digital media. I currently have around 650GB of TV shows and music and other crap.

My brother has a MacBook with 100GB HD and he wants in on some of our old school favorite TV shows and such. The problem is that we don't have a very easy way to share all this stuff.

We tried the networking built into our respective OSes but we can't figure it out. We have a wireless network at home, to which both of our computers connect to. Is there any way we can set-up file sharing via that wireless network so he can access my files?
 
It should be ludicrously simple doing it from the Mac side. I'm running an old OS (10.2), but you just go to the Sharing control panel (I think it's called), and turn on Windows Sharing. (You could also do FTP or some other methods, but that's probably the simplest.)

It should tell you the IP address of your local machine and what to type to get to it. Then if I'm remembering right, you just type the IP address into like My Computer or Internet Explorer and it'll open up the share on your Mac. You might need to have the username after it, like /username, or maybe it just prompts for your username and password at that point.

I don't remember for sure, but it's super easy. Basically just amount to clicking the "turn on file sharing" button. I'm sure you can do it the other way around too, but I've never tried figuring out how to do it in Windows.
 
Yeah, there's the button. Literally as simple as clicking the Windows share button. I love how simple it is.
 
[quote name='Puppy']Yeah, there's the button. Literally as simple as clicking the Windows share button. I love how simple it is.[/QUOTE]

Actually, that'll only allow Windows computer to access the Mac OS, not the other way around. You have to 'connect to server' on the Mac and type in the Windows computer's IP to work.

I just tried it now on my Macbook, and it works.
 
I won't get to try until I go home for Xmas break next Saturday so... I can't say. Hopefully we can get it to work. We looked a similar guide when we first tried but we couldn't get it to connect.
 
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