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Middle right: Open the folder bearing your Windows account’s name (in this example, “robin”).
Bottom: Boom! Here’s all your stuff from the Windows PC.

Share Mac Folders, Open on the PC

When it comes to networking, Macs are people, too.

Windows is perfectly capable of letting you rifle through a Mac’s contents
from across the network. Here’s how to set that up:

1. Make your Mac “discoverable” on the network. On the Mac,

choose → System Preferences. Click Sharing, and proceed as
shown in Figure 19-7.

Tip

Before you close the Sharing window shown at top in Figure 19-7, you might notice
that a line in the middle of the dialog box says “Windows users can access your
computer at smb://192.168.1.203.” Those numbers are the Mac’s IP address. You’d
need it only if you decided to access the Mac by typing its address into the Run dialog
box—a last-resort method of connecting.

2. The payoff—now you can access your Mac folders. On your PC,
open any desktop (File Explorer) window. In the sidebar at left,

click Network. The Mac shows up like any other icon. When you
click the Mac’s name, the “Enter network credentials” box appears,
as shown at bottom in Figure 19-5.

Tip

If the Mac’s icon doesn’t show up, you may have to get forceful. In the search box,
type run and press Enter. In the Run dialog box, type the Mac’s IP address as noted in
the previous Tip. Precede it with two backward slashes, like this: \\102.168.1.203.
When you press Enter, the “Enter network credentials” box appears; continue with
these steps as though nothing had gone wrong.