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Hello world,

I have just spent a good three hours pouring through forums to answer this question and nothing has helped me, yet. We have just installed Windows 7 on our PC and that is the host computer connected to the router and printer.

I am using a Mac OS X 10.5.8 and I cant figure out how to file share or print from my Mac. We used to run Windows XP and I could see the host computer in finder but now I can see nothing and my PC can't see me.

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My Mac is connected to the router and can use the net, but could someone please help me set up file sharing and printer? I understand that the printer may be tough, but file sharing at least would be great!

Cheers,

Morgan.

Dhiraj
2010-12-07 15:20:00
Try http://wlancontroller.com to turn windows 7 into hotspot
Aibek
2010-08-01 07:11:00
Check out earlier MakeUseOf article, How To Easily Share Files Between Mac & Windows Computers .
Oron Joffe
2010-07-22 23:04:00
Have you enabled file- and printer-sharing on the Windows machine and shared the dirve drive and printer? That ought to be enough for the machine to show up on your Mac.
2010-07-22 17:54:00
You should try checking the following pages:File Sharing: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1812Printer Sharing: http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/printsharevista.htm