Can someone please share the tinkering laptop on the LAN?

Right now I design a part in solidworks or fusion360 on the computer at the back of the room. to move that part to the laser is easy, they can see each other on the network. (samba share?)

What if I want to 3d print a file? I can’t seem to open a samba share from the tinkerine laptop to the laser computer, the solidworks computer, or vice versa. Some people say they use their personal dropbox, which seems onerous.

Is there a security reason it’s not being done? Did I miss a setting or something?

Please, network wizards! I’d love to be able to save directly to the target machine and then walk over to start my print.

Thank you!

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That would be great if the Tinkerine computer was a windows box.

I went over and got the IP and tried to connect from the mac to the laser
machine (command K) at smb://172.16.0. whatever the laser was.

Timed out.

There’s no point, you don’t need the computer to print, you can copy to the SD card from any computer. I recommend installing tinkerinesuite on your own PC and slicing there, that mac is dead slow.

FYI if you choose to use the mac, Dropbox is installed, create a folder, share with your account and your files will magically appear on that machine.

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Oh, you mean the mac mini?

Covered in the OP. I don’t want to share my dropbox at VHS any more than I
want to use a USB stick. I’m not exposing my poorly defended network to
whatever mysteries are lying in wait on the VHS machines.

You should be able to connect with this thing on mac
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If not, then it’s a network issue that is beyond the scope of the OP, and the VHS network could use a planned revamp, instead of the pile of fixes so far (no disrespect to the fixes, the network works… pretty well)

@rob that’s exactly what I tried. timed out.

what network were you on? Firewalls maybe?

whatever network the tinkerine mac was on.