Description

The Mac makes networking really easy. However, for PCs in your house, it can be very difficult to "see" your Mac on the network. Connecting from the Mac to the PC is generally pretty easy. Once you know what to look for it's really easy to be able to let the PC see the Mac and connect to it.

Transcript

Mike Calehan: Hi this is Mike Calehan and Doctor File finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on how to see your Mac for your PC on a network. This is a common problem the Mac is very good at net working but often while the Mac can see any PC's at your network the PC's cant see the Mac, so we are going to fix that open system preferences you can do that either from the dark icon or from airport you can click and save open network properties so what, click on network or highlight airport, I want to go to auto advanced. Now once when we are going to advance we are going to click on the wins, now what we need to do under the work view if you need the type and the name of your windows, work with so if you use one of that the false It would be, work group or MS home other people like me name that networks, then click plus and you want to put in the IP address of your gateway. Generally that's the IP address of your router, the IP address that all the computers and your network connect through click okay. Click apply and now your Mac will be visible to all of your PC's and all of your windows virtual machines any your network, and that's all that is to do it.