In a message dated 4/26/04 10:41:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< You don't need AppleTalk on Ethernet to get your Ethernet connection to provide "services" to your PowerBook. It depends on what you mean by "services". If you mean web browsing or email, then it doesn't matter whether AppleTalk is on or off or whether it uses Ethernet or the serial port.>>
Yes, that it exactly what I meant by "service," when I described that I was using the hotel's Ethernet in the rooms...
Thanks for the info. WHO KNEW?!? I have always turned Appletalk to ethernet. NOW I understand that it only needs to be on when I am using the Ethernet to link between computers using the Ethernet connection...
You don't necessarily need it then. My Wallstreet is connected to the home network wirelessly via TCP only (the basestation doesn't do AppleTalk). I connect to file servers, print, use TB2 and other things all via TCP/IP.
Under OS X you see all the servers in a list even if you are on IP only.
<<If you can't access any website or your email, then I would think something is wrong in your network settings. Did the hotel provide details on how to use Ethernet in the rooms? They should. >>
Yeah; they're okay... and I was always getting connected. My question was, WHY am I able to connect even though Appletalk was not turn to "Ethernet?"
Marriott is pretty kewl... I mean, SURE, at 1st I was handed a RJ-45
MULTI-LINE phone cord when I asked the front desk for an Ethernet cable(!), and when I
accidently mentioned that it was for an Apple laptop, they panicked! (which
is why I usually do not mention it!)
At which point you ask why it would matter. And if they still have the glazed over look you explain it doesn't.
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