This problem doesn’t relate directly to Perl, but I’m not sure other communities to post this in. I am trying to learn and set up a network. My fundamental understanding of networks could be wrong. Basically I have a Windows PC, and a Mac laptop. I do not have an internet connection, but there should be a way to communicate from the two computers. I do not need them to communicate a lot of data, even just 1 bite at a time. I just want them to be able to connect. I do not have an internet connection, so can’t connect through there, and also can’t download any software. How can I set up a session and communicate (server-client). Can someone point me in the right direction. I am thinking there is a way to use the terminal on my Mac and cmd on the windows PC. I know the MAC address of the network card on the PC. I also know it is possible, because I can create a network on my Mac and it will show up as an option to connect to on my PC, though I’m unable to connect for some reason. Please point me in the right direction.

Again, simply, I want to connect my PC to my Mac using cmd and terminal. I do not have access to an internet connection

In reply to [OT] General network questions by SkinBlues

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