Create Wireless Ad-Hoc Network - Mac Tips Daily! #387

Listen to this episode of MTD.

Have you ever wanted to quickly create a wireless network between two or more macs, without having a router in the middle? Macs can use Bonjour to make it super simple. This is useful if you are on a business trip or any other situation when you need to quickly network machines. You will need at least two Macs for this tip.

Mac #1

1. Click on the 'Airport' icon. Choose 'Create Network'.

2. You can change the name or leave it as the default. You can also keep the same channel or choose a new one. If you want it to be secure, use a password, and this will make WEP required. Unfortunately it is just WEP, but it's probably fine for temporary use. 

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Share Files and Folders - Mac Tips Daily! #356

Listen to today's show If you have multiple accounts on your Mac, you may have a need to share a file with all of the user accounts on your Mac. Mac OS X offers several ways to do it, but I think the SHARED folder is the easiest. It gives all users READ/WRITE privileges to it, so you can easily collaborate.

How to do it:

1. Open Macintosh HD

2. Open the Users folder.

3. Open the Shared folder. Once it's open, you can drag and drop files into it that you want to share with everyone on the Mac.

4. If you are going to do this frequently, a quick shortcut is to add this folder to your sidebar. Simply click and drag the folder to your sidebar under the places section.

5. For users to access these files, they will have to navigate to this folder from their account. Remember that everyone has Read and Write privileges to this folder.