Re: Networking

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:31:30 -0400

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In WinMac Digest #4 - Friday, July 3, 1998, "Steve Hyman"
<steveh@practech.com> wrote:
> This is easy. You need ethernet (on both ends), a hub ($100 or so),
and
> no router. Just Wingate (gateway/proxy server from
> http://www.deerfield.com/wingate/). Wingate runs on the PC. Wingate's
> documentation is outstanding; written for newbies.
> This get you a little intranet in which all machines can share an
> internet connection to the outside world (based on an ISDN modem in my
> case).
> Forget Dave unless you've gone to NT school. I've made two runs at
> installing it and bounced off their non-documentation every time.

I've been using Dave 2.0 since March 98 and have nothing but rave
reviews for it. I think that what some folks may miss about Dave is that
it's really (IMHO) designed to do only one thing... put a Mac on a
Windows NT-served network. At this it really shines. Using Dave to link
a single Mac and a single PC (or any peer-based network) is possible but
requires faking the network with hard-coded IP addresses to start, and
no doubt Wingate is a much better solution. But if you have an NT
network, preferably using DHCP, Dave works magnificently, and you don't
have to install Services for Macintosh. Just let it run.
Pete Jones
pejones@pop.dn.net

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