Kofi Agyeman asks:
I am part of a network connected to the same router which gives us access to the internet via an ADSL broadband modem. I manage the router and would like to know how to create a peer-peer network with the other laptops on our wireless network.
4 Answers -
Mike
August 17, 2012You said the other laptops are on your wireless so if I understand correctly they are already on the same network and should be able to communicate with each other.
Could you please elaborate what you are trying to do and what you mean by “peer-peer network”?
It would appear that the OP wants to set up a peer-to-peer network (or workgroup) on his LAN without the need for dedicated servers. I am assuming (yeah, I know assuming is not proper form) that he needs help in setting up sharing on the various Mac nodes since they should all be able to talk to each other already since they can all hit the internet as currently configured.
August 17, 2012u r right, we are all already On the same netwOrk, sO i guess my questiOn then shOuld have been: hOw dO i cOmmunicate with the Other laptOps?
August 18, 2012Once again, you have to be more specific what you want to do. On a network everything is part of a communication.
Do you want to share files, chat with each other, screen-sharing?
You could open up Terminal (Mac) or the command line (Windows) and ping the IP of another device on the network by entering “ping “. If everything is working you will receive answers packets and the time in ms will be shown in the window.
That is one example of communication ~ obviously, nothing productive but mostly used for troubleshooting networks.
If you want to share files and folders you will have to setup a network share and then access it from the other devices.
How to share files and folders & access network shares on Windows 7
August 18, 2012http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Share-files-with-someone
Mac 101: File Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1568
Mac OS X: How to connect to Windows File Sharing (SMB)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549
tanx 4 ur ’elp Mike, wat i want is tO be able tO chat with the Other laptOps On the netwOrk. sO is that pOssible? ps: please fOrgive te weird shOrt hand, sOmething spilled On my keybOard and using an Onscreen keybOard is tOO slOw…
August 18, 2012If the computers usually have internet connection I suggest using some existing chat protocol and client e.g. Skype or Live/Windows Messenger.
http://www.skype.com
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/messenger/home
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/messenger
If you want a LAN based solution the easiest thing probably is to run iChat on the Macs and setup a Bonjour account and on Windows use some opensource messenger that supports iChat/Bonjour plugin e.g. Pidgin
Setting up iChat should be straight forward, it will go through the settings with you.
On Windows you will need Bonjour
August 19, 2012http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/
and a iChat/Bonjour client e.g.
http://www.pidgin.im/
Sorry, I put in the wrong link to Bonjour.
The following link to Bonjour is from the Pidgin Wiki
August 19, 2012http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999
tanx mike
August 19, 2012Saurav Azad
September 12, 2012to share files and folders & access network shares on Windows 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Share-files-with-someone
File Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1568
Saurav Azad
September 12, 2012http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29815.0
just refere to the link
Kavita
October 6, 2012use shakespeer….best p2p agent for macs…