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

Lesley Vita(lesley.vita[at]darwin.ntu.edu.au)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:48:24 +0930

>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

If your friend has Mac OS8.x, he can set up a folder as an ftp site with a
few clicks using web sharing. The OS will allocate the ip and he can then
access this from the other machine.

Regards,

Lesley Vita

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