[WinMac] Re: winmac Digest 31 Jul 2001 12:32:04 -0000 Issue 112

From: Dennis Devine (dennis.devine[at]saintleo.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 15:16:51 PDT

Networking and having the PC appear on the desktop for
PC network is acheived by sharing the systems and
"mapping" the drives to the network under the
network neighborhood section. Very similar to
Mac networking.

At 12:32 PM 7/31/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>winmac Digest 31 Jul 2001 12:32:04 -0000 Issue 112
>
>Topics (messages 519 through 522):
>
>Re: Web Devil for windows
> 519 by: Jerry Flatto
>
>PC Laptop as an external Hard Disk
> 520 by: Charles A. Patrick
> 521 by: John Nurick
>
>SirCam virus
> 522 by: Donovan, Harold
>
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>From: "Jerry Flatto" <jflatto@pobox.com>
>To: <winmac@iffy.com>
>Cc: <vforberg@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:23:02 -0500
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>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Web Devil for windows
>
>I have been using a program called Teleport Pro to perform the tasks that
>you are looking for.
>
>The program has multiple options in determining how to link both files that
>it downloads as well as files and links not downloaded. You can also specify
>what type of files to download if you do not want to download everything.
>
>You can find information on the program at:
>
>http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm
>
>along with being able to download the program for your evaluation.
>
>Jerry Flatto
>____________________________________________________________
>
>"Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side and a
> dark side, and it holds the universe together."
>
>Dr. Jerry Flatto, Information Systems Department,
>School of Business, University of Indianapolis,
>mailto:jflatto@pobox.com
>____________________________________________________________
>
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>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:04:30 -0400
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>From: "Charles A. Patrick" <charles.patrick@sympatico.ca>
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>Subject: PC Laptop as an external Hard Disk
>
>Starting with the Powerbook 100, Apple has generally provided a means to
>connect the PowerBook to another Mac, so that the PowerBook will appear as
>an external hard disk on the other computers desktop. Is there a way one
>can do this in the Wintel world? In particular, we would like to connect
>an IBM ThinkPad to a desktop PC, and have the ThinkPad appear and function
>as an external hard disk on a desktop PC. Can this be done? And how does
>one go about doing it? Might one be able to do something similar between a
>ThinkPad and a Mac running Virtual PC? Or, perhaps even without the
>intervention of VPC?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Charles A. Patrick
>60 Pontiac Street
>Ottawa, ON
>K1Y 2K1
>
>Tel: 1 613 729 5793
>
>
>Message-ID: <89F78A2D3E73D311BA6400A0C9DCE6091A86C7@ZEPPO>
>From: John Nurick <jnurick@locum-destination.com>
>To: "'winmac@iffy.com'" <winmac@iffy.com>
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:15 +0100
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>Subject: RE: [WinMac] PC Laptop as an external Hard Disk
>
> > From: Charles A. Patrick [mailto:charles.patrick@sympatico.ca]
> >
> > Starting with the Powerbook 100, Apple has generally provided a means
> > to connect the PowerBook to another Mac, so that the PowerBook will
> > appear as an external hard disk on the other computers desktop. Is
> > there a way one can do this in the Wintel world? In particular, we
> > would like to connect an IBM ThinkPad to a desktop PC, and have the
> > ThinkPad appear and function as an external hard disk on a desktop
> > PC. Can this be done? And how does one go about doing it? Might one
> > be able to do something similar between a ThinkPad and a Mac running
> > Virtual PC? Or, perhaps even without the intervention of VPC?
>
>There are at least three ways of doing this in Windows 95 and later.
>
>1) The OS provides "Direct Cable Connection" using a null modem serial
>cable, a bidirectional parallel cable, or the machines' IR ports. You share
>the disk(s) in question, configure the link and off you go. Look up "Direct
>Cable Connection" in Windows Help for the details. For Win 98, ME and 2000,
>I think you can also use a computer-to-computer USB cable.
>
>2) Peer-to-peer networking using a crossover cable to connect the two RJ45
>sockets. Much faster data transfer, but can be confusing if one or both
>machines also have to be configured to log onto a domain.
>
>3) 3rd party software such as Laplink, which basically provides a smarter
>interface to (1). Versions of Laplink have recetnly appeared on magazine
>cover disks here in the UK.
>
>In the Mac<>PC scenario, you should be able to use Dave on the Mac to access
>the PC's drive(s) via a network connection. Alternatively - but less
>elegantly - network the machines via TCP/IP and run an ftp server on one and
>a client on the other.
>Message-ID: <2190E70F7996D411943500805FA7722B30DDF3@NBPSTJWNT02>
>From: "Donovan, Harold" <donovan.harold@nbpub.com>
>To: "'winmac@iffy.com'" <winmac@iffy.com>
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:36:28 -0300
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>Subject: SirCam virus
>
>We got caught by the SirCam virus yesterday, before we got the right .dat
>file loaded on some of our NT workstations (and 1 95 box). The results were
>that no executable will run. Does anybody know of a repair procedure, other
>than a format and restore that will work on these machines? Mcafee will
>detect it but is unable to clean it. We deleted the files but the machines
>are still quite useless at the present time. Any assistance would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Harold Donovan
>IS Analyst
>N.B.Publishing
>Saint John
>New Brunswick
>E2L 3V8

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