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Browsing for computers for w.less Router

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I have MAC G4 with MAC OX 10 and above, 3 laptops which are on the wireless router, and the wirless router is connected to the coperate lan over the wan link.before we had windows xp laptops on the wireless from which we used to acess the coperate computers using the computers ip address, pull files. I am confused how to browse from the MAC PC to the coperate lan netwrk.

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by sgt_shultz

if you create a user account on the Mac with the same username and password as an account which a pc uses to browse the network, and login the Mac with that account, it should just work. to share files you may wish to set up a separate volume and enable appleshare to it depends on your server os....there are pretty good instructions on the apple website under suppoort for how to do this for your specific setup

by admin

on the mac i cannot browse the local area network like a normal lan becouse of the router which has a firewall where the coperate lan users cannot see the computers beyond the router can only see the router.where as the clients using the router can be able to use the lan clients.and on a mac i wld like to knw hw to i brwse for a pc using ip address.?

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