Re: [WinMac] Peer to Peer Networking...

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:22:37 -0500

At 08:48 AM 12/21/98 -0500, Rosemary J. Hagen wrote:
>>For the Mac side to see the Win side of the network you will need to buy a
>>copy of DAVE for the Mac, or PCMacLan for the Win computer. I have a heard
>>plusses and minusses about each. Either will work though for you.
>
>>>You never actually stated what kind of computer your husband is using,
>>>but I'm assuming it's a PC. I'm also assuming that you want to use the
>>>built in networking on the PC, which normally uses NetBEUI as a
>>>protocol... in which case you should get a copy of Thursby Systems' DAVE.
>>>It's nice and easy, and comes with instructions...
>
>Dear Thomas & Liam,
>
> I'm sorry I didn't mention the computer my husband has - it's an AMD
>90mghz. Unfortunately we cannot afford to buy Dave. Does anyone have a
>cheaper suggestion??
>Thanks for your help.

I'm sorry I don't have your original message so I'm going to make some
assumptions. I'm going to assume that you're connecting the Mac an PC with
ethernet cables, either directly with a crossover cable or through a hub.
I'm also going to assume that you can live with sharing files between them
when they're not connected to the internet.

If you want to share files between a Mac and PC and want to spend as little
as possible you can run ftp or web server software on one or both of them.
Just give each machine a phony IP address (start them with 127 and make
them unique) and when you use a browser or ftp client to look at the other
machine, just type in the IP address since there won't be a valid hostname
or DNS to do the resolving.

MacOS 8 and later has a "personal" web server which works with the
traditional file sharing. Internet Explorer for the Mac also includes a web
server I recall. I'm not sure these have the capacity to allow file
uploading so they would only be sharing files one way.
There are a number of free ftp and web servers for PCs. I don't know of a
free ftp server for the Mac but Net Presenz is supposed to be excellent and
is only $10.

The problem with this method is you need different TCP/IP settings for file
sharing vs. connecting to the internet. On the Mac it's pain to set up but
once it is Location Manager makes it easy to switch. One Win95/98, changing
the TCP/IP settings requires a restart.

My vote would still be for using DAVE but I can certainly understand having
more time than money :-)

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