How to Set Up Your Network for PCs and Macs

For example, my shared Mac is named "Felix," so I typed \\Felix. Enter your username and password to connect to the files. You can browse shared Windows 7 files in OS X, too.

On the Mac, go to the Finder, choose Go: Connect to Server, and enter the remote PC's SMB file path. For example, my Windows 7 PC is named "SLOTH," so I entered smb://SLOTH.

Enter your login name and password to finish the connection. Your multi-OS network should now be all set.

Share a Windows 7 Printer

With Mac OS X Mac OS X can reach a shared Windows 7 printer just as a PC can. Thanks to some new networking architecture in Windows 7, I had problems connecting a Mac with OS X 10.6.2 using the default SMB protocol, but here's how to use the LPD (Line Printer Daemon) standard to share a printer.