[WinMac] Re: a quick and dirty temporary mac/win network

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:00:49 -0500

        If the Dell has a SCSI disk and is formatted to FAT, then just yank the
HDD from the Dell and use PC Exchange to mount it directly in the Finder.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:58 AM 3/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>i have a frined who needs to transfer about 2gigs of targa images from
>his dell over to his mac. they both have ethernet cards, so i was
>going to suggest useing a ethernet crosover cable and getting them to
>talk over tcp/ip, and useing something like a demo version of Dave, or
>setting up an ftp on one of the computers and upping, or downloading
>the files from the other computer, he has almost zero cash for this,
>and floppies would take about two years to accomplish this. any idea
>if this idea would work? i think he's got winNT workstation on his
>dell. my guess would be that you could just set the ip of one of them
>to 123.123.123.123, then have the other try to access the ftp site at
>123.123.123.123. any thoughts? an easier way perhaps?
>
>
>-hary

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