Wireless Network help (jonesing for HOUSE!!!!)

[amedia]

ETA: Got it! I was trying to explain the problem to metherion and he said, "But Mom, if I can see your SharedDocs folder on my computer and drag things out of it, why can't I just drag things *into* it and have them show up on your computer?" Holy cow. It worked!

Ever since metherion pimped hubby and me into House, we've been watching the first season twice a week in a placid sort of way. Then the schedule-to-come showed that the station showing them was going to skip a bunch, so metherion used my flash drive to transport an ep to my computer, I burned it to a DVD and we watched it. Then we watched another one, and hit the Vogler arc, and now we can't transport them fast enough! Metherion sneakernetted five more eps today and I burned a nice long DVD, but we *watched* three eps tonight, because we are hooked on House like House on Vicodin.

Why so low-tech, you may ask? After all, metherion logs onto the Intarweb through our home wireless network. If I could pull the eps onto my computer directly from his, it would be House Heaven! Well, I spent part of an afternoon futzing with my (Windows XP) 'puter and his (PowerBook G4, i.e., Mac) laptop, and HE can now download whatever I want to put into my SharedDocs folder... but *I* can't get into HIS computer, which was the whole point!

He has all the right doodads clicked under Network Sharing and his default workgroup has been renamed to the name of our home network, etc., etc., etc... I can SEE his computer on "View Workgroup Computers" where it shows up as "metherions-computer.local" but when I double-click on it, I get asked for a frickin' username and password.

WHAT username and password?!!! I tried the one he uses to make system changes on his computer, but that's not what it wants. I don't HAVE a username and password on this 'puter, nor did I set one up for the wireless network (yeah, I know, bad geek, no donut). I tried the standard username and password for my router to no effect.

I've been googling for quite a while but I can't seem to find the right information. Help!

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[maubast.livejournal.com]

http://www.macwindows.com/netbasc2.html

I don't know if this link will help, but it talks about the password thing... :)

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the link - it's closer than anything I'v found so far.

It mentions optionally creating a list of users with passwords. That's the weird thing - neither of us *did* create any usernames or passwords!

A lot of what this link talks about, since it's pre-OSX, is stuff that's now handled silently in the background. I'll have to see what the current equivalent is, and whether it's still accessible to the user.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Update: aha! While I was trying to explain this to the kiddo is when he popped up with his idea - so while it didn't help directly, it still helped!!! Thank you, sweetie!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

Any luck yet?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Any luck yet?

Well, we've transferred all the House episodes using metherion's idea of dragging things into the Shared Docs folder. So we have a working method!

I'm going to try kyleen66's suggestion about setting up an account for myself on his computer sometime in my copious spare time (ha ha).

{{huggles}}

[maubast.livejournal.com]

Glad you got the house eps... and yay! a good suggestion! *hugs*

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Did you try and use blanks and nothing for the password?

And under his "services" under control panels did HE have "window's file sharing checked? As well as "personal file sharing?"

And THEN I think he still has to go to "Accounts" and either create an account for you.

OR he goes and creates a "SHARED" folder that will be shared with the "General" public. Apple doesn't let you open up you whole computer to the world that easily.

Thankfully, his approach worked out faster for you. Sorry I couldn't post yesterday. I was travelling between Kentucky and Michigan.

Kissies.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Did you try and use blanks and nothing for the password?

Yep! The "submit" button was grayed out unless I typed in *something*, but I tried to be as minimal as possible.

And under his "services" under control panels did HE have "window's file sharing checked? As well as "personal file sharing?"

Yep!

And THEN I think he still has to go to "Accounts" and either create an account for you.

Aha!!!!! I bet that's it!!! That's one thing we didn't do. The instructions I found that walked me through the file-sharing and workgroup-renaming, etc., explained about how to get into the account setup gizmo, but not what to do with it. Thank you!!!!

OR he goes and creates a "SHARED" folder that will be shared with the "General" public. Apple doesn't let you open up you whole computer to the world that easily.

Another reason why I love Apple computers (not being sarcastic here). Switching back and forth between his and mine while trying to work this out reminded me that Mac was my first computer love... sigh.

Sorry I couldn't post yesterday. I was travelling between Kentucky and Michigan.

I can't believe you're apologizing when you gave me such a great answer - thank you so much!

Kissies.

Kissies back!

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[maubast.livejournal.com]

http://rose-in-shadow.livejournal.com/153801.html

(Sorry to jump in here with a non-computer issue post. I figured I'd better post it whilst I was thinking about it.)

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[amedia.livejournal.com]

OMG adorable! Thank so much!!!!

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[maubast.livejournal.com]

*hugs tight*