[WinMac] network Mac dos card w/ PC - it's possible...
Rosemary J. Hagen(rjw[at]eos.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 13:34:17 -0400
Dear MacDosCard Wizards,
I contacted Apple a while back asking a question about the network
we have set up at home. They were quite surprised that we'd done it
successfully - thinking that it couldn't be done at all.
My husband made a simple cross-over cable and we plugged it into the
ethernet port on the back of my 7200/120 PC Compatible & to the ethernet
card he bought cheap for his PC - I think it's an AMD 70. We're both
running Windows 95. By this alone, we can share printers - I can print
things from my PC side to his laser printer and he can print things to my
color HP 660C. I can access his zip drive and visa versa - mine is scsi
and his is not. I haven't tried using his modem this way... my own
works fine.
We tried "Dave" but found it confusing and frustrating - however it
does allow access to the Mac side into this whole network. I have yet to
reconfigure it and really use it on any consistent basis - we have a
trial copy and until I can find time to see if it's really worth buying...
I'm curious if anyone else has done something like this with as
little expense?
Thank you for your input,
Rosemary
PS. We're thinking of buying a large hard drive to share between the
PC's. I'd like to get the Mac "in on it" but ... (any recommendations? -
cheaper the better).
I brought some questions here a while back about the same network...
Very few understood what we had going.
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Rosemary J. Hagen
rjw@eos.net
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