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

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:26:05 -0500

>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?

(I've been away and don't know if this was suggested but...)

the cheapest and quickest way of doing it is with Apple's Web sharing
control panel. This comes standard on Mac OS 8 and above. Enable it (from
control panels) designate his targa folder as the web folder, go to the
Dell computer, in a browser give it the Mac's Ip address, boom, all the
files in the folder are listed there. Just click on each of them to
download.

Of course, if you get a shareware like the one from Peter Lewis (I don't
remember the name of the thing) that turns your Mac into an FTP server
then that's even better. It works great and is a snap to setup. You could
even use the PC's browser as an ftp client, just type in ftp:// instead
of http.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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