(Fwd) re: Networking

steveh@practech.com
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:14:28 -0400

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Regarding Pete Jones' Dave comments...

<
....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...

I hooked up my Mac to our Win95 peer network with DAVE 2.0 last month for
some heavy file transfers. We're running the Wingate proxy & MDaemon mail
server. I was just running the demo of DAVE. It installed clean. Set the
NETBIOS up. Yes, I did have to use a hard IP number. On our network all
the stations are numbered. It's easier for me to just tag each station
with its own IP #. (That comes in handy on Remote Control sessions as
well.)

Anyhow it worked just fine. It does setup much easier than 1.0. There was
one problem. I'm running 8.1 (HFS) and DAVE has the "Dancing Icon" problem
common to 8.1 & NT even on our Win95 peer network. It's annoying enough
that I wouldn't suggest using DAVE on 8.1 until this is fixed.

BTW, Wingate & Mdaemon worked fine as well. They don't require DAVE just
the TCP settings and a HOSTS file.

                                                      Richard Laycock

rlaycock@earthlink.net

El Cajon, CA

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