Ubuntu is a free and open source operating system which is growing and maturing and could one day be a competitive force with Mac OS X and Windows. However, if you want to connect an Ubuntu PC to a network containing a Windows PC and allow communication, there are some things you will need to do.
My netbook is great and all but I do most of my work on my computer. It runs Windows 7. One of the things that I would have missed from Windows on my netbook was the simplicity to transfer files without the need of a USB. It turns out that Mac made it easy to connect to Windows and Windows 7 played along very easily. Before you can do this, you need to change a setting in the System Preferences. Let’s get started.
