Computer question

[mussa]

I am running out of hard-drive space.  i have like 5 GBs of mp3's i want to burn.  Anyway ,my burner took a shtein on me, I can't find any burners that run on regular firewire(all are 400 or 800 firewire).  My girl just got a Dell laptop and i was wondering if there was someway we could connect our computers and i could drag and drop over to her hard drive/.  Now I have a MAC and hers is a PC.  Can you just connect both computers with an ethernet cable?  Is there anyway of going about this?

[Wingspan]

I am running out of hard-drive space.  i have like 5 GBs of mp3's i want to burn.  Anyway ,my burner took a shtein on me, I can't find any burners that run on regular firewire(all are 400 or 800 firewire).  My girl just got a Dell laptop and i was wondering if there was someway we could connect our computers and i could drag and drop over to her hard drive/.  Now I have a MAC and hers is a PC.  Can you just connect both computers with an ethernet cable?  Is there anyway of going about this?

yeah, you can do this...but not with a normal ethernet cable.

you need to get a crossover ethernet cable, connect the computers then open the file sharing on each one. and you'll be able to see the the PC from the Mac and vice versa as if they were servers.

it's pretty simple, just need the crossover cable. (if you're on a network, or have a ethenet router/hub, you can just the use file sharing over anyway.

oh, and regular firewire IS 400. also, you should be able to get 800 firewire and use it on any firewire connection, you just couldnt use it full speed.

[mussa]

thanks for the feedback wingy

Yea I figure though whats the point in getting a burner if you can't use it up to speed.  What Im going to do is get a new PCI slot with firewire 800 and USB 2.0.  Get new burner, get an external hard-drive and get more RAM.  Give my computer an upgrade for around 400 dollars.  Instead of buying a whole new computer for like a grand. 

[mussa]

ok wingspan or anyone.  i got the crossover cable.  now i opened up file sharing on my mac, how do i do it on a PC? or how do i find the right place where to type in the address on the PC? i know nothing about this. 

[Wingspan]

try and see if you can see the mac from the PC.

what system you running? if you have 10.3.x then you should be able to, under the sharing system preference pane, Sharing, then be sure to click on "Window's sharing"

then browse through the PC as if you were accessing a network (i dont know alot about PCs so i don't know where this is). you should be able to see you mac as a network volume at this point.

[mussa]

i tried a million different things with the PC.  Nothing.  My buddy who is a IT specialist couldn't even figure it out.  Windows sucks donkey shtein.  I guess its back to google and just trying to look it up. 

[MURP]

"network places"  is the area on PC's for that i think.

[mussa]

then what?  dude your old roomate larry took me through all these possibilities and none worked.  then ian came over and tried. can't figure windows xp out.