Networking a Mac and PC to share audio files Options

Is there an easy way to share files between a Mac and a PC. I picked up a Hub, but I can't figure out how to set up file sharing between the two. I basically want to be able to do production on the Mac and burn the final product on the PC as well as sample on the PC and transfer to the Mac for production. Right now I am using a free internet file storage site, my cd burner, and a 128mb smart media reader/writer to do the swapping. I would much rather drag and drop.

Thank,
Rick

[Francois Déchery]

Hi Rockafeller,

I have 2 iBooks and a Pentium III machine on a LAN working perfectly without any additional software.

My answer was related to OS9 networking.

Now under OSX it is pretty easyer because all network clients (Windows and Unix) are included in OS X

To add some extra notes to the excellent infos posted by dixiechicken, here is how to configure your IPs address:
Let say you have a DSL connection, a router a pc and a mac

Router Get a dynamic IP address from the DSL provider (WAN connection)
Router must also have an internal adress, put
IP: 192.168.0.0
Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Your DSL login/pass will be setup once in the router.

# PC TCP/IP setup:
IP: 192.168.0.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.0
DNS servers (the one provided by your ISP)

# Mac TCP/IP setup (Preferences/network/ethernet)
Configure: Manually
IP: 192.168.0.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.0
DNS servers (the one provided by your ISP)

if you add another machine add 192.168.0.3 and so on...

Another easyest way to do it, is to configure your router as a dhcp server (usually the default setting) and teach the mac and PC to be configured to use it (in the mac, switch "Configure" to "using DHCP").

This way, the router will automatically assign the IP address, the router adress, and the DNS address to each computers. The drawback is that you can never predict what IP your machine will get, and so you wont be able to have alias of other machines, or static routes programmed in the router (ie to redirect some servers ports, often used in games or such)

Please note that you should absolutely use IP in the form of 192.168.x.x. (or 10.0.x.x)

HTH