Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
jason hollis(nonsequiter19[at]hotmail.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:23:54 PDT
WinMac Digest #365 - Monday, July 12, 1999
Help: DAVE, NT, Office 98
by "John Nurick" <jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk>
Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
by "Romeyn Prescott" <prescor@potsdam.edu>
Re: [WinMac] questions: NT vs. mac for small biz network
by "Romeyn Prescott" <prescor@potsdam.edu>
Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
by "Jeff Johnson" <jjohnson@wi.net>
Re: PC COMPATIBILTY Card
by "Christian Raymond" <craymond@ALGENE.COM>
Re: Large Mac volumes on an NT server
by "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
[Off-Topic?] Can't use Internet Explorer or WININET.DLL
by <vin@audiophile.com>
Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
by "jason hollis" <nonsequiter19@hotmail.com>
Subject: Help: DAVE, NT, Office 98
From: John Nurick <jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:26:02 +0100
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G'day cobbers,
We've been having a lot of trouble trying to get our one Mac (Powerbook
G3) to work smoothly with our NT4 Server-based network. Plugged into the
10BT socket and using DAVE, the Mac will happily mount the NT network
shares, display folder contents, copy stuff back and forth, and so on -
but continually crashes when trying to navigate through folders with the
Office 98 File|Open dialog. Desktop printing usually works, and so does
SMTP email to and from the Exchange server. We've had no joy achieving
dial-up access via DAVE, and lots of confusion from the Mac's network,
modem and Internet settings (enough to make the Windows equivalents seem
*almost* comprehensible). We also have ambitions to start sharing
diaries, preferably via Outlook 2000 & Outlook for Macintosh.
I'm meant to be the technical guy but know very little about any MacOS
beyond about 6.0, and the Mac user is adept but not technical. We've
tried about everything we can think of and have run out of ideas (as has
Thursby technical support), not to mention having other things to do. If
anyone knows a Mac/NT expert in the south-east of England (mid-Sussex to
be precise) who would be able to come in for a few hours and sort us
out in exchange for schmall scheque (OK, mountains of moolah), please
e-mail me.
John Nurick
L&R Consulting
Haywards Heath
West Sussex
United Kingdom
mailto:jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
From: Romeyn Prescott <prescor@potsdam.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:35:18 -0400
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>I'm having trouble with the "HotSync" function between my Palm IIIx and a
>new Mac PowerBook G3. The PowerBook freezes every time I try to HotSync the
>two. I'm using the Keyspan USB-PDA adapter to connect the two.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Jeff Johnson
>jjohnson@wi.net
>
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Read all the READMEs that came with the MacPac software. You will
see that they explicitly warn you that the software is known not to
work with any Mac G3 (though I have minimal/no difficulties with my
original PB G3/250).
One possible alleviation is, as I recall, to install RAM Charger.
This is detailed in the docs.
...ROMeyn
signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm
Subject: Re: [WinMac] questions: NT vs. mac for small biz network
From: Romeyn Prescott <prescor@potsdam.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:43:26 -0400
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>hello everyone...
>
>please, i'm interested in information, but i also welcome opinions as well...
>
>i work for a small company which is 60-70 mac, the rest windows...
>they want to upgrade to an ethernet LAN, and they want to ensure
>that they can maintain their mac files' *integrity* (i.e. not get
>messed up in cross-platform file problems) in terms of getting
>documents ready for a professional printer, etc.
Linux (RedHat) + samba + netalk+asun = low-cost cross platform file server
Throw in Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/webmin. It takes a lot of the
pain out of Linux configuration. It's web-based, so you'll need
apache too. I haven't seen any config modules for netatalk yet
though. I am, however, just starting to play around with all of
this. I have it all running and that's about it! I can connect to
my box from Windows, AppleShare, or ASIP. And all the software was
free!
...ROMeyn
signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
From: "Jeff Johnson" <jjohnson@wi.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:32:24 -0500
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What ultimately worked was to uninstall all Palm related software and
reinstall exactly according to the instructions that came with the MacPac.
The HotSync function works like a charm now.
I was also able to successfully sync the Palm to an 'older' G3 laptop using
the modem/printer (serial) port.
Cheers!
----------
>From: Romeyn Prescott <prescor@potsdam.edu>
>To: "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list" <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
>Date: Sun, Jul 11, 1999, 9:35 PM
>
>>I'm having trouble with the "HotSync" function between my Palm IIIx and a
>>new Mac PowerBook G3. The PowerBook freezes every time I try to HotSync the
>>two. I'm using the Keyspan USB-PDA adapter to connect the two.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Jeff Johnson
>>jjohnson@wi.net
>
> Read all the READMEs that came with the MacPac software. You will
> see that they explicitly warn you that the software is known not to
> work with any Mac G3 (though I have minimal/no difficulties with my
> original PB G3/250).
>
> One possible alleviation is, as I recall, to install RAM Charger.
> This is detailed in the docs.
>
> ...ROMeyn
>
>
>
> signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm
>
> * Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
Subject: Re: PC COMPATIBILTY Card
From: Christian Raymond <craymond@ALGENE.COM>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:22:53 -0400
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The PC Compatibility Card is NOT 32 bit, so you wont be able to use the new=
driver from novell (or prosoft). Here we use Netware 4.11, and I had=
similar problems with my card. If you install the driver that comes with=
the card, you should be able to access the network, but without the logging=
script and other things that comes with Netware 4/5.
Christian Raymond
System Administrator=20
SignalGene Inc.
craymond@signalgene.com
>This is my first time here and I need some information.
>On our network (which at the moment is running Netware 3.1.2) we have a
>variety of PC's and Macs.
>And everything has been running well for going on 5 years now. However,
>we are now upgrading to Netware 5.
>I am in the experiementation stage, bringing on one computer at a time
>to the new server while still running the old.
>My problem is with PowerMac 7200 and 4400 with Apple's PC Compatibility
>card. So far I have only experiemented with a PowerMac 7200. When I
>installed Prosoft's Netware for Mac, everything worked fine on the Mac
>side. But when I installed the Netware client on the PC side I am no
>longer able to see either network. I'm not sure why. The PC side is not
>even recognizing the network "card".
>The only documentation I have for reinstalling the PC Compatibiility
>software on the PC side deals with earlier versions of Newtare so I'm
>not sure what to do. I'm runnig Windows 95 on the PC.
>Does anyone know anything about PC Compatibility cards and Netwar e 5?
>
>If so please HELP!
>
>Rose A Re
Subject: Re: Large Mac volumes on an NT server
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:06:33 -0400
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The basic rule for NT is the more RAM you give it, the faster it runs.
Virtual memory is on all the time, so the more RAM is in the machine, the
less NT pages the kernel to the drive. Part of the kernel is locked into
RAM - The non-paged pool - with the balance committed to the paged pool.
With RAM so inexpensive these days, it just plain pays to "max out" your
server's RAM.
Hope this helps!
At 12:13 PM 7/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a formula I can use to calculate how much physical
>RAM
>I need on an NT server (NT4/SP4) to accomodate a Mac volume of size x? I'm
>running into limitations when our server was upgraded from 4G drives in the
>array to 9G drives; SFM stopped working. The amount of data didn't change,
>just the volume size.
>
>@@@@@@@@
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q166/5/71.ASP
>
>SYMPTOMS
>
> Shortly after you create a Macintosh volume on a partition larger than
>approximately seven (7)
> GB with a large number of files, the system may crash with a STOP 0x24
>error in
> NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM (NTFS.SYS).
>
>
> CAUSE
>
> The AppleTalk protocol driver Afp.sys, depletes the memory pool allocated
>to non-paged pool
> while indexing a Services for Macintosh (SFM) volume.
>
>To work around this problem, increase the non-paged pool memory available to
>kernel or reduce
> the number of files on the SFM volume. The amount of non-paged pool
>available to kernel is a
> fixed value that is based upon the total RAM in the system. If you
>increase the RAM you will
> increase the non- paged pool available to kernel.
>@@@@@@@@@
>
>I'm trying to figure out how much it would cost to upgrade the server RAM
>but to do that I
>really should know how much more RAM I have to buy. Also, I may run into
>the situation
>where I'm already maxxed out on RAM.
>
>Any ideas or alternatives would be welcome.
>
>Scott
>
>* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
>
>
Subject: [Off-Topic?] Can't use Internet Explorer or WININET.DLL
From: vin@audiophile.com
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:53:10 -0400
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[Warning/Apology] The following question doesn't involve the Mac, but
is pertinent to a formerly-Mac household using a PC received as a
gift.
---
Compaq Presario 2300 dealer-config; 128Mb RAM; W95; 4Gb HD w/only 500Mb
used.
Nothing that involves accessing the internet seems to work. AOL v3 or v4
will work as long as I'm accessing AOL-located content. Any attempt to
go to the WWW will fail with a message like: "Error in WAOL.exe -
program fault at 000137:xxxxxx in WININET.DLL". I think I'm amalgamating
two error messages there - one comes up initially and the rest is
displayed when "details" is selected...
Any attempt to re-install AOL displays the same error when the attempt
to install the browser is reached. Likewise if I try to install IE4 or
IE5 directly from CD.
Of course, IE won't launch - same message.
I "successfully" re-installed Win95 with no impact upon the problem.
The Compaq is a present to a friend from their father-in-law. She
doesn't know who the dealer was and would prefer not to have to go to
her father-in-law to tell him that there's a problem...
---
doumo arigatou gozai-mashita
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Palm III/Mac G3
From: "jason hollis" <nonsequiter19@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:23:54 PDT
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It works great on my G3/233/MT through old style serial. have yet to get USB
upgrade, though a keyspan is planned. is this macpac 1 or 2? is saw no
mention in mine (2)
jason
>Read all the READMEs that came with the MacPac software. You will
>see that they explicitly warn you that the software is known not to
>work with any Mac G3 (though I have minimal/no difficulties with my
>original PB G3/250).
>
>One possible alleviation is, as I recall, to install RAM Charger.
>This is detailed in the docs.
>
>...ROMeyn
>
>
>
>signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm
>
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