[WinMac] Re: Network Virgin

Ron Colvin(colvinrd[at]erols.com)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:25:53 -0500

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The easiest thing for you to do is get PC Maclan for the Pentium 2. That
will enable you to do apple talk over ethernet, you need to get a network
card for the PC if it does not have one already and a small hub. There is a
question on the printer. If the printer has a network card in it already
you are set, you can actually print to it through apple talk on the PC with
Maclan. If the printer does not the easiest way to print from the PC is to
get a standard PC printer cable and let the printer port switch. How well
the printer does this depends on the printer. If you plan on expanding the
number of machines at your location a server would be a good idea but with
only three it is not necessary in my opinion. Retrospect will back up
various platforms if you want to go without a dedicated server

>
> Her office:
> Opposite of mine - several PCs and only 1 Mac.
> She will want to share files with the Mac. She has a lot of Lotus Word
> Pro stuff. The
> Performa has no ethernet card but does have a slot. I removed the
> internal modem a
> long time ago to give it another serial port.
The performa does need the ethernet card. Do they have a server on their
end? If they are using either Novell or NT they can set up the services for
Macintosh and the performa can network off of the server and share files
and do printing that way. If they are using peer to peer without a server
then the performa will need either Dave or virtual PC to connect to the
others for file sharing. Printing can be possible without file sharing if
they have a newer postscript printer. With HP printers anything newer than
a 4m can do appletalk along with whatever protocol they are using to print.
It might have a local talk port to allow them to print straight to the
printer without network, appletalk over ethernet would be faster. Depending
on how many machines the several is or is likely to be a server if not
already instituted should be, It is much easier to deal with than a peer to
peer network, particularly cross-platform

Ron Colvin
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