My New Mac, Lion Edition

Sharing Folders over a Network

If you have a bunch of Macintosh computers hooked up to the same router, you have a simple network. When you have such a network connected together, either physically through Ethernet cables or wirelessly through a Wi-Fi router, you can freely share files between your computers.

To make your Macintosh share files with other Macintosh computers on the same network, you need to do the following:

• Turn on File Sharing

• Define which folders you want to share from your Macintosh

These two steps simply make your folders visible to other Macintosh computers on your network. Those other computers can then access files in those specified folders through the Finder window, essentially treating the folders on another computer as ...