I found Google to be of great help when I was setting up networking between my PC and MacBook Pro. It actually isn't all that difficult to do either. Anyway...
What I did was make sure that file sharing was enabled on the PC. It also may help if you give your PC a fixed IP address. I then did everything else on the Mac.
When I first got the two networked, I hit Apple+K to connect to a server. Type in "smb://192.168.0.2/" (the IP address of your PC on the network). You will get asked for a password, which will be your Windows password. Once authenticated you'll be present with a drop-down with a list of your shared folders on your PC.
As well as the normal Shared Documents folder you can also set any folder to be shared by right-clicking it in Explorer, which is what I do for my BlitzMax folders. Although you can compile with everything on your PC, I'd recommend transferring copies over to the Mac for at least the final release, as the file system has some little quirks that can cause problems later on (mainly due to the files attribute flags, permissions, etc).
You can also connect to your PC by opening a Finder window and clicking on Network. A list of connected servers will appear after a few seconds and one of these should be your PC. This is now how I connect and it's dead easy.
The above assumes that you're going through a router, which I assume is the case?
Also, before you can compile anything in BlitzMax you will need to installed X-Code, which will be on the DVD that came with your Mac.
And the Mac can write to NTFS as well (following on from post above), because mine has no problems at all (apart from the atrribute quirkiness!).
Have fun.
What I did was make sure that file sharing was enabled on the PC. It also may help if you give your PC a fixed IP address. I then did everything else on the Mac.
When I first got the two networked, I hit Apple+K to connect to a server. Type in "smb://192.168.0.2/" (the IP address of your PC on the network). You will get asked for a password, which will be your Windows password. Once authenticated you'll be present with a drop-down with a list of your shared folders on your PC.
As well as the normal Shared Documents folder you can also set any folder to be shared by right-clicking it in Explorer, which is what I do for my BlitzMax folders. Although you can compile with everything on your PC, I'd recommend transferring copies over to the Mac for at least the final release, as the file system has some little quirks that can cause problems later on (mainly due to the files attribute flags, permissions, etc).
You can also connect to your PC by opening a Finder window and clicking on Network. A list of connected servers will appear after a few seconds and one of these should be your PC. This is now how I connect and it's dead easy.
The above assumes that you're going through a router, which I assume is the case?
Also, before you can compile anything in BlitzMax you will need to installed X-Code, which will be on the DVD that came with your Mac.
And the Mac can write to NTFS as well (following on from post above), because mine has no problems at all (apart from the atrribute quirkiness!).
Have fun.