Dear Ann,
I recall that one of your machines is running 10.1. You may be able to
download Samba and get it running so that the pesky machine will play
well with the others.
10.2 is better at getting the windows networking to go well in both
directions.
Jerry
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Ann Richmond wrote:
> I couldn't get the WIndows machine set up to be a happy camper on my
> network.
> The Macs could not see it and I have no earthly idea how to tell if it
> could
> see them. It would be nice to get that to work some time. I guess I
> just
> don't know enough about setting up the windows side.
>
> It will be email or cds for a while I guess.
>
> The PB 190 is still amazing. It chugs along like a trooper. Even the
> floppy
> drive still works! (Which the one on my 9600 does not.) My husband
> likes it
> because it is little and simple. I've got to wean him off it soon. It
> can't
> keep running forever.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Ann
>
> Henri Yandell wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Ann Richmond wrote:
>>
>>> I could email these files to the windows machine and then
>>> open them with Word PC 2000 , but we always lose formatting,
>>> pagination, etc. when I do that. And these are 75 page
>>> documents so redoing that stuff is not a nice prospect.
>>
>> As far as I know, emailing the files should be exactly the same as
>> transferring them on the network, it's just a much less efficient
>> 'network'. So the problem you have is one of converting from a mac
>> format
>> to a windows format and nothing to do with hardware.
>> Using floppies/cd's are just another type of network in effect, the
>> same
>> information ought to be travelling.
>>
>> You're doing Mac Word 4 -> Windows Word 2000. I'm guessing, but it
>> seems
>> that the problem is the distance in versions between these two. As to
>> a
>> solution, I've no clue. I would imagine you'd have to research
>> different
>> conversion softwares to see which works, or try to find a Word version
>> that is in between the two you have and see if you can 'boost the
>> signal'
>> by converting via that.
>>
>> You may just be stuck with the bad conversions :(
>>
>> A solution could be to make an example document on your Word 4, that
>> is
>> small but has the necessary differences, then email it to the group
>> to see
>> if anyone has software that opens it happily.
>>
>> Hen
>>
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
