RE: [WinMac] How can I "reset" ports & TCP/IP on DOS card

Richard Laycock(rlaycock[at]home.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:35:14 -0800

Quoting Rosemary Hagen...
>
> I have not "mapped" either of the com ports available to the PC.
>They are both empty. I am not using AppleTalk at all - in fact the Mac
>has nothing to do with the connection directly. As far as I can tell,
>the Mac doesn't even "know" there's a connection.
>
> All we did was plug in a cross-over cable and configure my Pentium
>100 card with his PC - AMD 90. Windows 95 is doing the connection and
>it's not via TCP/IP - in fact I think it's using IPX/SPX and NetBEUI.
>We're running "Client for Microsoft Networks".
>
>

Rosemary & Dennis,

There is no way with an Apple PC Card that the Mac has nothing to do with
it. It may work but if you're not doing it by the book you may have
trouble. Carl Ketterling touched on it a few emails back in reply to Dennis
K...

The network protocols including the Microsoft Client should be installed
with the help of the NDIS driver on the Apple PC Compatibility Card floppy
or CD. Then as Carl remembered you have to run SETNET off the Apple CD both
after install and after ANY subsequent changes to the Win95 protocols.

Personally I only run TCP/IP off the PC side and do all my LAN access
w/Dave off the Mac but I've seen many network problems on the MacDos Card
list and most come down to not following the Manual to the letter. If
you've setup the MS Client using SETNET then perhaps your port problem is
unavoidable.

Good Luck,

                  Richard L.

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