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Bloody hell! I just had to go thru this horror but computer to computer. Everyone seems to ask this question every now an then so search the forums. I'm upgrading to OS X next January... I've heard it's a lot easier to network PCs and Macs with Jag.

Don't want to be rude but RTFM. I bought a router yesterday and red the manual and you know what ?

It worked !!!!

So do your homework and dig in. You'll be set-up in no time

As long as we're being rude and yelling I'll tell you to smurfing use "read" instead of "red" !!!! 

As long as we're being rude and yelling I'll tell you to smurfing use "read" instead of "red" !!!!

read, red, red


You should take grammar courses Nzilla, I'm petty confident that red a the past tense of read. I was not smurfing YELLING. (See i can swear too !!)

Your's was sarcasm right? Because mine was too. 

And yeah, read is the past tense form of read. 

Sorry i mixed the run and read verb. My primary language is french, english is my second language. Because of that, I've sometimes have trouble discerning between sarcasm and aggresiveness. 

So sorry for last post tone, Nzilla

You are forgiven. (But how can you tell if that was sarcasm or not!?) 

Your's was sarcasm right?

If it's sarcastic is it ok to make more grammatical errors while correcting someone else?  "Your's" isn't a word.

Assuming you're sharing a broadband internet connection, the two computers should already be networked after a fashion - TCP/IP is nice this way. Using TCP/IP (or IPX, depending on the game) should work for playing network games right out of the box. For StarCraft or WarCraft II, just route it all through Battle.net.

As for file sharing, try setting up a web server - it's easy. Assuming yuour router is configured properly (It should ignore HTTP requests originating from outside the network, preventing the world from seeing your servers.) you'll be safe. Just download EasyServe 0.5 (Old software, FYI)

http://www.summary.net/soft/easyserve.html

Dump the files you want to share, preferably zipped, into the docs folder, and add a link to the index.html file. Open the html file by typing your iBooks IP address (you8 find that in the TCP/IP control panel) into the address bar in IE on the Windows machine.

Then, right-click the link and "Save As". That's always workedfor me, but you should keep in m ind that EasySeve is pretty stupid. You need top have things just-so for it to work properly.

As for uploading? Well, you can try hunting down an FTP server, but I use MacOS X's built in one, so I can't recommend one.