Allison, If you are using Lion, there may be a way, but not entirely sure. Samba was removed from LIon, which is how I had done it in the past. However, I do not have any windows machines any longer since my employer gave me a Mac. Hopefully someone on the list has a mixed environment and will have something to offer.
Good luck, On Sep 17, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Allison Mervis wrote: > Hi Scott. > Thanks so much for your response. All of the pc's and both macs are > successfully connected to the network, either via WIFI or Ethernet. However, > I want to be able to share files between all of the machines. On the pc's, > I'm able to go into the network and sharing center, see all of the computers > in the home group, and copy files and folders between them. Can this be done > on the mac? Thanks again. > Allison > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:49 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Question regarding home networking. > > Allison, > > Adding the MInis would be no different than adding the PCs. In fact once you > turn on wireless networking or connect them via ethernet, assuming your > network is configured using dhcp, the Minis will pull IP addresses from the > router. > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Allison Mervis wrote: > > > Hi everyone. > My boyfriend and I currently have all of the PC's in our house networked via > a home group. We recently purchased Mac minis, and we would like to add them > to the network as well. How exactly is this accomplished? Is the fact that > the network was originally created on a PC going to cause issues? Any > assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. > Allison > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
