Network Games

John Lee(jlee[at]avalon.net)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:14:50 -0500

WinMac Digest #372 - Monday, July 19, 1999

  OT - MacWorld
          by "Welch, John C." <jwelch@aer.com>
  Re: OT - MacWorld
          by "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
  Re: [WinMac] Re: Just Getting Started, please help
          by "Dan Thurgood" <dan@ergo-id.co.uk>
  [WinMac] Re: BackOffice Mac Services need info sources
          by "Hoover, David" <dhoover@mgmt.purdue.edu>
  Network Games
          by "John Lee" <jlee@avalon.net>

Subject: OT - MacWorld
From: "Welch, John C." <jwelch@aer.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:58:20 -0500
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Well, if anyone else is coming, I'm in NY at mw, a little early. Email
me if you're coming, and we can maybe go out, and yell at each other in
some deli...lol

John
jwelch@aer.com

Subject: Re: OT - MacWorld
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:25:58 -0500
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        I'll be there on Thursday - I'm speaking at Conference C20 -
Administering
Macs in a mixed platform environment.

        Part of my prep is Win2k's improved SFM, with AFP over IP.
Plus, another
element is backing up massive files.

        See you there!
        Dan

At 07:58 PM 7/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, if anyone else is coming, I'm in NY at mw, a little early. Email
>me if you're coming, and we can maybe go out, and yell at each other in
>some deli...lol
>
>John
>jwelch@aer.com
>

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: Just Getting Started, please help
From: Dan Thurgood <dan@ergo-id.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:57:13 -0500
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Wow, I'm really getting into this list stuff now! Someones actually
replied to one of my submissions!

In answer to your question Dan, the problem is with Win machines running
Powerpoint 97 (Either as part of Office 97, or as a standalone
application). What we found was that as soon as we upgraded our Mac
Server to ASIP 6.1.1 (previously we had a PC station acting as a server
just for the PC's but this was getting impractical) and started to use
the SMB facility on ASIP, Powerpoint simply started to trash it's own
files. At first we thought it was a problem with ASIP, but careful
research (including a couple of submissions from this list) revealed it
to be a problem with Powerpoint 97. At first Apple gave a workaround ie
save files to local desktop, then copy to Server, but again this was very
impractical in a busy design consultancy. At last the answer appeared -
upgrade to Service Release 2. After literally 2 hours of trawling thru'
the waking nightmare that is Microsoft's website, I found the upgraders
and performed the necessary without a hitch. A week of testing seems to
have shown that the problem is solved but I want to carry on testing for
a few more days just to be on the safe side. As far as I know, the newer
versions of PPoint do not have this problem; whether it occurs on the Mac
version as well I'm afraid I don't know.

Hope this answers your query!

Star Wars is fantastic! (sorry, off subject, sorry....)

Subject: [WinMac] Re: BackOffice Mac Services need info sources
From: "Hoover, David" <dhoover@mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:57:18 -0500
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Outlook for the Macintosh Exchange Server Version is designed to connect to
your Exchange Server using Appletalk or TCP/IP. You set up a profile using
the Outlook Setup application in the Outlook folder, where you can choose
your connection protocol.

Also, I agree with Alex that when using TCP/IP, specify the DNS name of the
Exchange Server rather than the NetBIOS/WINS name. This has fixed
connectivity problems we've had before.

This page offers a full description as well as the FTP link to download the
client software for the Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/MAC/Exchange/default.htm

The current version is Outlook 8.2, which includes drag-and-drop support for
attachments.

David Hoover
Krannert Computing Center
Purdue University

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Dearden [mailto:pata@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:45 PM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: [WinMac] Re: BackOffice Mac Services need info sources

>Now comes the first problem. installed Outlook Express on my Mac, go to the
>preferences area and options for connecting to the local server which are
>present
>in the PC version are not in the Mac Version. Is there a version of
>Outlook (not
>Outlook Express for the Mac) is there a server ready version and were do I
>get it?
>Am I missing something in the Outlook setup for the Mac?

You won't be using Appletalk (Mac Services) to connect to the NT server
with Outlook. Outlook is a mail client which generally use either MAPI or
POP protocols to talk to the servers. These usually travel through TCP/IP
and use particular IP sockets (ports). I don't use Outlook on a Mac so I
don't know if there's even a way to make it go through Appletalk... but
I'd say you're looking in the wrong place (Appletalk) and should
concentrate on configuring your IP address on the Mac and accessing the
server that way. Also, unless you are running DAVE, you won't be able to
access the NT server by its NetBIOS name (like you do from the other PCs
when you configure the Outlook client).

Hope that helps.

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

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Subject: Network Games
From: "John Lee" <jlee@avalon.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:14:50 -0500
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Hello,
  
         I know this is a serious list, but I have questions
reguarding gameing. Should I use Dave or PC MacLan Pro. Does it make
a differance if I am playing old games like Doom or newer games like
Myth 2. I have a Two Mac one PC ether network set up using PC Mac lan
Pro and can access the macs from the pc but can not access the PC
from the mac to move files. I hope that I did not fail to read an all
inclusive FAQ that explains all of this, that I was to read prior to
posting. Or if this is not the forum to ask network game issues, I am
sorry for the post, Thanks in advance for any help.
John Lee 8-)

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