[bjames]

Now that I think about it, I did have the network setup asa FTP. From the windows computer, I had a drive mapped to a fixed up address of the sgi box. I was able to use internet explorer or file explorer to simply connect to my /usr account in irix by entering my usr name and password.

I didn’t need to have any special apps installed on the Windows XP system, I just used tcp-ip protocols. On the SGI I may had Samba installed but honestly have no clue how it works.

A year ago I tried assigning a static ip to the sgi, and connect through the windows 7 explorer using FTP://ip address/iris/... but didn’t work. Both computers are connected to a 4 port router/link. I was also thinking about direct connecting the windows box and sgi using a twisted ethernet cable...