Final Steps | Addendum

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“Perfect — now that the Razer (Windows) is alive and part of your desk setup, we can absolutely make it talk nicely with your Macs. Let’s go step-by-step so everything on the network can share files, drives, or folders cleanly.

🧩 Step 1 — Check your network

Make sure:

  • Your Razer Blade and your Macs are on the same local network (same SSID if Wi-Fi, or same Ethernet switch/router).
  • Each machine can ping the other:
# on Windows PowerShellping 192.168.1.xxx   # replace with a Mac’s IP# on Mac Terminalping 192.168.1.yyy   # replace with the Razer’s IP

If both reply, you’re good.

🪟 Step 2 — Enable Windows file sharing

  1. Open Control Panel → Network and Sharing Center → Advanced sharing settings.

  2. Under your active profile (Private network):

    • ✅ Turn on Network discovery
    • ✅ Turn on File and printer sharing
    • ✅ Turn on Allow Windows to manage homegroup connections (if shown)

  3. Click Save changes.

  4. Right-click any folder → Properties → Sharing → Advanced Sharing → Share this folder.

    • Add Everyone or specific user.
    • Click Permissions → check Read/Write as needed.

  5. Note the network path (e.g. \RAZER-BLADE\shared).

SET UP A USER

 To use the Command Prompt, run it as an administrator and use net user <username> /add to create a new user, followed by net localgroup administrators <username> /add to grant them admin privileges. 

To set a user password with the CLI in Windows 10, open Command Prompt as an administrator and use the command net user “UserName” “NewPassword”. Replace “UserName” with the actual username and “NewPassword” with the new password. For security, you can use the asterisk (*) to be prompted to type the new password without it appearing on the screen: net user “UserName” *

🍎 Step 3 — Access from macOS

  1. In Finder → Go → Connect to Server…
  2. Enter the SMB address:
smb://RAZER-BLADE/shared
  2. When prompted, use your Windows username and password.
  3. Check Remember this password in Keychain if you want it to auto-mount.

The shared folder will now appear in Finder’s sidebar and even remount on reboot if you add it to Login Items → Volumes.

🪄 Optional — Share from Mac to Windows

If you want to access Mac files from the Razer:

  1. On the Mac → System Settings → General → Sharing → File Sharing → turn on.

  2. Click the “i” → make sure Share files and folders using SMB is enabled.

  3. Add the folder(s) you want to share and set Windows credentials.

  4. On the Razer:

    • Open File Explorer → This PC → Map Network Drive
    • Enter path like:
\\MACNAME\SharedFolder

🧠 Tips

  • If discovery fails, ensure both sides use Private/Home (not Public) network profile.
  • Temporarily disable Windows Defender → Firewall to confirm it’s not blocking.
  • You can also use IP addresses instead of names:
smb://192.168.1.44/shared
  • macOS sometimes caches bad credentials → use Keychain Access → Passwords to remove old SMB entries.

Once that’s set, your Windows laptop becomes just another “machine on the LAN,” visible from Finder and even from your NAS.

Want me to add automatic reconnect scripts for both sides, so shared drives remount after reboot (macOS + Windows)?

Excellent combo of questions 🔥 — let’s break it cleanly in two:

🟩 ① Control the

Razer Blade Stealth from your Mac

Yes — you can remote into the Razer from your Mac, and even launch programs, manage files, or start training runs.

There are a few levels of control depending on how deep you want it:

🧠

Perfect — that’s easy to set up and works great once configured.
Here’s exactly what to do, step-by-step (Windows first, then Mac):

🖥️ On the Windows PC

Enable Remote Desktop

Press Windows + I → System → Remote Desktop

Toggle “Enable Remote Desktop” → On

Confirm any pop-up (“Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication”) → leave it checked.

Note your PC name

In the same window, look for “PC name” → write it down (e.g. RAZER-STEALTH).

Check your network type

Settings → Network & Internet → Wi-Fi → your network → Properties

Make sure it says Private network (not Public).

Allow through Windows Firewall

Windows Security → Firewall & network protection → Allow an app through firewall

Ensure Remote Desktop and Remote Desktop (TCP-In) are both checked for Private networks.

💻 On the Mac

Download Microsoft Remote Desktop (free from the Mac App Store).

Open it → click “+” → Add PC

PC name: the one you wrote down (RAZER-STEALTH or the IP address).

User Account:

Add your Windows login (username and password) or leave “Ask when required.”

Display: optional tweaks (Resolution, Fit to Window, etc.).

Click Add, then double-click your new connection to start it.

🧩 Optional (if connecting from outside your home)

You’d need to port-forward TCP 3389 on your router to that PC’s IP and use a strong password or VPN.

For now, within your local network (same Wi-Fi), you don’t need that — it should connect immediately.

Once connected, you’ll see your Windows desktop inside a window on your Mac — keyboard, mouse, and even GPU acceleration through the eGPU will still work.

✅ Good for daily use; GPU-accelerated desktop sharing works fine.

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Option B: Cross-platform terminal access (Python, AI work, etc.)

If you mostly want to run LLaMA or do installs from the Mac terminal:

  • Enable SSH on Windows:

    • Open Windows PowerShell (Admin) →
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0Start-Service sshdSet-Service -Name sshd -StartupType 'Automatic'
  • From your Mac, open Terminal and run:
ssh yourusername@RAZER-IP-ADDRESS

Now you can run Windows commands or Python installs remotely, just like it’s a Linux server.

🧠 ② Installing

LLaMA

*(Llama 3 or 3.1 series, local AI)

Here’s the clean way for your Razer with the RX 6800 GPU (Windows 10):

1️⃣ Install

Python 3.11+

Download from

👉 https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

During install:

☑️ “Add Python to PATH”

2️⃣ Install

Git

https://git-scm.com/download/win

3️⃣ Install

Ollama

(the easiest local LLaMA runtime)

Download from

👉 https://ollama.com/download/windows

Then in PowerShell:

ollama run llama3

That’s it — it downloads and starts a local LLaMA 3 chat server instantly.

You can then access it via:

4️⃣ (Optional) Connect your Mac to it

From the Mac you can run:

export OLLAMA_HOST=http://<Razer-IP>:11434ollama run llama3

and the Mac will talk to the model running on the Razer GPU.

Would you like me to prep a tiny “Windows + GPU optimized” version of LLaMA install (so it auto-detects your RX 6800 and uses the ROCm runtime instead of CPU)? That’ll give you real GPU acceleration.

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