Thank you again, Happy New Year Jennifer Worgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John F. Scipione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Networking MacOSX to System7
> You need 4 or 5 phonenet adapters to connect 4 or 5 macs. You connect > them in a chain, and their are terminators in the end. The phonenet > adapter has 1 end that goes into the printer port and then 2 phone > jacks. Each of the end jacks have a terminator (50 Ohm resister) in > them. It kinda looks like this crude ascii drawing: > > ____________________________________ > Term -> | | | | <----Terminator > PM 7200 Compact Compact Compact > > > On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:13 PM, Jennifer Worgan wrote: > > > Thank you so very much for taking the time to spell it out so clearly > > for > > me. > > > > How do you plug in 4 or 5 compact macs into the phonenet adapter on > > the > > 7200 Power Mac? Do you use a regular phone compay adapter that allows > > 5 > > phones to be plugged into one outlet? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John F. Scipione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jennifer Worgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:08 PM > > Subject: Re: Networking MacOSX to System7 > > > > > >> The tricky part is finding the actual networking equipment. If you > >> want to network using ethernet, then you are going to have some real > >> trouble because it can take a lot of time and money to find > >> appropriate > >> adapters for compact macs. That is why I suggest using phonenet. You > >> can usually find phonenet adapters in the regular places; ebay. > >> Usually they are pretty cheap, I wouldn't pay more than $10 for 3. > >> Then what you need to do is get some regular phone cables, I suggest > >> finding uncurled cables if you can, because it is less annoying to > >> deal > >> with. Then just hook up the adapters to the printer ports of the macs > >> and connect the phone wires between them. Not sure what the max > >> length > >> wire you can use, but it is pretty long, think serial cable lengths. > >> As far as software goes, if you just want to share files and printers > >> between them, you just need to make sure that you have the appropriate > >> networking software installed. This is just Appleshare and comes on > >> the System 7 disks. If you are using System 6 install Network > >> Software > >> Installer 1.4.5 which is available here: > >> > >> http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/ > >> Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Networking- > >> Communications/Network_Software_Installer/ > >> > >> Now, if you want to connect your compact macs to the Internet you need > >> some other pieces of software. If you use a modem you could probably > >> find one that connects directly to the compact macs, install PPP and > >> be > >> done with it. If you use a broadband connection or if you want to > >> share Internet connected to the 7200 it becomes more difficult. First > >> you have to setup your network card on your 7200, I assume you have > >> already done this. Then you need to go and download a program called > >> IPNetRouter. It is available here: > >> > >> http://www.sustworks.com/site/downloads.html (Scroll down about 1/3 > >> the > >> page, download version 1.5.4 for 68k, 1.6.8 for PPC.) > >> > >> And you are going to need to get Open Transport 1.1.2 which is > >> available here: > >> > >> http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/ > >> Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Networking- > >> Communications/Open_Transport/ > >> > >> and you are going to need the Localtalk Bridge 2.1 software which is > >> available here: > >> > >> http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/ > >> Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Networking- > >> Communications/Other_N-C/ > >> > >> Once you have all that setup, go to your Appletalk control panel, set > >> the port to ethernet (if you are sharing a modem, serial), then go to > >> your localtalk bridge control panel and set it to be on, and public, > >> restart. Then setup IPNetRouter. Their is actually a much better > >> guide for doing all this with screenshots at: > >> > >> http://www.tangerinecs.com/~amber/network.php > >> > >> Make sure when following his directions, do NOT set the Appletalk > >> control panel to be Printer port, set it to ethernet (for LAN > >> networking) or serial (for modem networking). Other than that, just > >> follow along. > >> > >> Skipp > >> > >> On Dec 23, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Jennifer Worgan wrote: > >> > >>> I am wanting to network my compact macs from different rooms in my > >>> house to > >>> a 7200 PowerMac. I have never networked anything before. > >>> > >>> Where should I go to find out what I need (hard and soft ware) and > >>> how > >>> to > >>> set it up. 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