Hello All,

My first post to Insanely Mac. Have run Boot camp and can move back and forth no problem. Put Windows XP on my PC partition because of fear of Vista. I only have the Windows partition to run one program that is incompatible with the Mac. I need to be able to transfer files from one partition to the other. At first I thought I could drag and drop into the PC partition that shows up on my Mac desktop, but that is blocked. Then I thought I would just use a flashdrive, but that is cumbersome. Then I thought I could upload files on the internet then download them on the other partition.

But now I can't manage to get my PC side onto the internet. Mac is no problem (I'm on right now) - my husband is a PC guy and he and I spent time with my Windows next to his think pad and all the settings are absolutely the same, just unable to connect. This has become annoying because I want to get Adobe reader on the Windows partition and download the latest version of the program I am running and am unable.

Can anyone confirm that they have been able to connect to the interet with the same set up (Windows XP on 50GB partition with new MacBook running Leopard?) Then I'll contact the ISP and see if it is a problem there - we weren't even able to connect with the hard wire into the computer, let alone trying the wireless.

Thanks!

Please give us more details about the partition being 'blocked'.
Did you update your BootCamp drivers on the XP side? Why exactly doesn't your XP connect to the net: Does it find the ethernet adapter correctly? Does it tell you about connectivity problems? What IP addresses does ipconfig /all show? After installing Boot Camp drivers from the Leopard DVD, Internet really shouldn't be any issue on an MBP...

I assume she means that OSX cannot write to the windows partition, which is probably in NTFS format.

You could run your windows under Parallels. That will automatically configure your internet connection for you and allow you to copy files onto it either from you OSX desktop onto your windows desktop via drag-and-drop, or via shared folders.

PM me if you need help with Parallels.

hecker

PS: hmm, I just realized your name is gvmnt_lady, so I might not reply to your PM after all.