Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [... mac and Linux machine talking ...] > > > It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so > > is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without > > spending too much money? > > Sure. A NULL-Modem cable, also known as a serial crossover cable, is the > only cost you will have. You need one that will connect to a serial port > on your Mac at one end and to a free serial port on the Linux machine at > the other. > > I believe, but do not know, that this is possible. I can't tell you what > cable or anything though; I have never done any serial stuff on a Mac. > I would recommend ethernet cards. For my laptop I was about to pick up a Xircom card for �30 and 10m of cross-over _ethernet_ cable cost me �7. However I don't know the price of ethernet cards for Macs. Once you have the hardware setting up a tcp-ip link it trivial. Plus instead of using a serial port with a maximum transfer rate of 14kpbs you get a transfer rate of either 10Mbps or even 100Mbps which is much better for file transfering. Once you have the tcp-ip link set up file transfers can be easily done by using the samba protocol (macs can use this with the correct *free* software), however things like appletalk are also available for linux.
Although the initial expense an ethernet network it a god-sent, and I'm a poor university student :) The ethernet will be the simpliest thing to set up and also the fastest you could connect the machines together. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: alexander . clouter @ ic . ac . uk || || (remove those spaces to e-mail me) |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Linux Earthquake
