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Hello! i’d be grateful for advice on setting up a home network. background: • livebox (residential internet gateway) • xp home os desktop pc (has wired connection to livebox) • mac osx leopard apple mac mini (has wireless connection to livebox) • mac mini also has a windows partition with xp home os (has boot camp and fusion installed). i want to set up a network between the desktop pc and the mac mini so i can back up the two hard drives on a shared area, share files, and share the printer. via bootcamp, i can log into either the mac osx side or the xp home side to work on files stored separately in each side. is there a way the xp home os side of the mac mini able can access files created on its other, mac os side, and vice versa? (would this mean sharing via the network?) would this mean i set up the network as having 3 individual connections: 1. the xp home desktop & 2. the xp home side of the mac & 3. the mac osx side of the mac? thank you. scotty

Use an external drive that is formatted with fat32 ( that or a a nas ) to store documents that you always want to access that way windows and os x can both access it. short of that maybe parallels.