[WinMac] mac-pc networking on a budget

John Droggitis(johnd[at]cybernex.net)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:41:17 -0500

I recently bought a PC with an ethernet card that I'd like to network
with my mac for disk and printer sharing. I'm also on a very tight
budget... I would like to share both the PC and mac hard disks, and
also allow the PC to access the mac's printer, a HP deskwriter 660c
that's connected to the mac's printer port with a serial cable.

The network only has these two machines, and they're connected to
eachother with a crossover ethernet cable. The mac runs macos 8.5.1 and
the PC has win98 SE. I know that either PC maclan on the PC or Dave on
the mac will allow disk sharing among other things, but are there any
other (preferrably less expensive) choices?

How about printer sharing? I don't use appletalk to talk to the printer
now, and I'm not sure if I can use appletalk for a direct serial
connection, can I? When I enabled appletalk on the printer port, the
chooser didn't see any printers. But even if it worked, how would I
make it available to the PC? The only way that I can think of is via
appletalk bridge or Printer Share, but then I would have to have pc
maclan on the PC so it can appletalk to the mac. Anyway, I'm rumbling
now...

So can someone that has done this particular thing advice what the most
cost-efficient way of setting up my network is (or even if it's possible
to set up)?

Thanks,

--John

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