9.21. Software Update

9.20. Sharing

Mac OS X is an upstanding network citizen, flexible enough to share its contents with other Macs, Windows PCs, people dialing in from the road, people dialing in from the Internet, and so on. Here's where you'll find the details of these connection methods :

• Personal File Sharing, Windows Sharing : Chapter 12.

• Personal Web Sharing, Remote Login, FTP Access, Apple Remote Desktop : Chapter 22.

• Remote Apple Events : Chapter 8.

• Printer Sharing : Chapter 14.

• Xgrid : Xgrid is powerful software that lets you divide up a complex computational task ”like computer animation or huge scientific calculations ”among a whole bunch of Macs on your network, so that they automatically work on the problem when they're otherwise sitting idle. If you're intrigued, visit http://developer.apple.com/hardware/hpc/xgrid_intro.html.

The Firewall and Internet tabs are described in Chapters 12 and 19.