- In this video I'm going to show you
how to connect to your iMac,
which I'm on an iMac 2020 right now.
But I was able to do this on my 2012
and prior iMacs and laptops, my laptop pro.
All you need to do is set up your folders on a
local thing.
So as you can see, I've got a movies folder.
Macs all come with movies folder,
and I just create folders within those
for various things, from my movies
that I have downloaded that I've processed.
And that's really important to do
to stay in terms of service.
You need to trans code any movies that you own
for your own use. That's legal.
And so you can do that and change them to a format.
That's, that's very important.
So if you have downloaded movies,
I just recommend that you put them in a folder.
You can have other movie folders for other things.
I have a YouTube business, as you know,
and I like to create movies for that also.
But if you want to access these folders
that are on your iMac over your home network,
you need to open up your sharing folder.
In your sharing folder, you have your areas.
You have screen sharing, file sharing, media sharing.
So I turn on file sharing.
And once you do this, it has to be on.
You're going to have to put in your password
for your machine, and then you can select.
You'll have to use the plus sign here
and choose the folders on your computer.
So that's the first one.
And then over here,
you're going to go read and write for yourself.
Now that's really important that
you set the permissions here.
If it's just read only, I go read and write
so it's just across the board.
But you can choose all of the folders
within your movie folder.
And once you have this set up,
you'll get this SMB URL,
SMB colon forward slash forward slash 1 9 2.
This is your local thing that you're going to
plug in on your iPad in an app named Files.
Files is an app on your iPad you're going to have to install
and then you plug this in and then you will get access.
Okay, I'm going to now switch over to my iPad
and I'm going to show you what you need to do
on your iPad within an app to connect to this folder.
First things first, you need this Files app.
Files app is what's going to connect
with that server, that SMB URL to your iMac,
and you have to be on the same networks so make sure that
you're on your wifi and Bluetooth is turned on,
on your iPad or iPhone when you install this app
and start using it.
So what we're going to do is you install this.
So install the Files Apple app.
So it's an authentic app, you don't got to worry.
In here, you're going to see things
down the left-hand side.
You can close or open this
if it accidentally closes or opens up at the top.
But you'll see some things and this Files app
is cool because if you have iCloud,
you can connect easily, more easily,
to your iCloud files that you're paying apple
to backup your stuff, or, you know,
what's on your iPad that you've downloaded
from the internet.
And even Google drive, which is really cool.
If you're paying for a Google apps for your company,
you can connect to all of your Google drive files
through here.
Again, you'd probably want to use
the Google drive app, but in this exercise
we're going to add, what's known an SMB URL
to your home network.
And I've already got mine in here.
But what you do is these three dots up here,
they should have a plus sign or something,
but you go here and you'll see connect to server.
So you'll go here,
and you'll essentially type in that yours,
what your Mac says,
S M B colon forward forward slash one-nine-two dot.
You know what, whatever it is, right?
That you were told, fill that out and go connect
and it will connect.
Now if it doesn't, try turning on,
on your home network, your wifi,
because you might be in the wrong wifi.
If you have a different wifi, they have to be the same,
or you gotta be on the same network.
So just make sure that you're on the proper network
here as your computer is.
I have my land cable in just for this exercise,
but again, you'll get it down here in the bottom.
You'll be able to click on it. And as you can see,
there's my movies folder.
There's, you know, and download movies.
So I've got one that I processed.
I bought the Alien's movie
and I've transformed it to an air video.
I can put some links in below this video
to converter-based software for Mac
that's relatively inexpensive so that you
can convert your movies and stuff like that also.
So you can just click on it,
tick tock, tick tock, and it will play.
And you can just play the movie like that
and boom bada bing.
And you can even like switch, you know,
flip through your movies like that
and go through things.
So the great thing about this software is,
is that it's access to all your folders.
So anything that you've shared in that
you're sharing drive on your Mac and you've added
remember the plus sign your specific folders
on your Mac will be accessible here
if you're sitting at the coach,
in your home office, you want to access quickly.
This files app is fantastic,
and you can have it simply in your area there.
And you can even tag just like on your computer,
you can tag that, you know, your movies are red,
so it's most important sort of thing.
So there's a lot of power to this
and you can just easily have a files app.
So I hope that helps you to understand
how you can connect to your home network
and use the files interchangeably while
you're on your mobile device.
If you have any questions,
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Thank you very much
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