If the PC can be the server, you can use DAVE:
http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html
If you want the PCs to share the Macs, that's a problem under OS 7,8,9.
In the old MS/DOS days (presumably also Windows 95) there was a product
called Appleshare/PC that allowed PCs to access Appleshare servers over
Appletalk. Not sure about sharing printers. If printers can be shared,
they'd have to be Apple printers. Epson has its own printer sharing
software that's separate from Apple's.
Believe it or not, I have one fully boxed copy of Appleshare/PC, which
hasn't been used. At the time Appleshare/PC came out, Mac networks were
mainly based on the "Localtalk", or its competitor, Phonenet. I even
have a Phonenet adapter for a PC to go with the software. I don't know
whether Appleshare/PC works over Ethernet, but I would think so.
Ethernet cards were available at least as far back as the SE/30, because
I have one. If you're interested, I'd be glad to send you the
Appleshare/PC stuff for the cost of shipping.
Regards,
Jim Hart
sorular wrote:
G'day
I've inherited quite a few old computers from a friend that also
includes mac, mac printer/scanner and pc's (and box full of mac
cables,parts etc...)
I'm hoping to have a use for all of them in one form or another, but
I'm not an apple expert so hoping that this is the correct forum to
get ideas on this.
Is it feasible to get macs on a mixed pc(win/linux) network. What
comes to mind first is as printer server, file server (or even router)
etc... however, I am not sure that'd work on a pc/mac Does anyone have
similar networks? I know that these are pretty old stuff but what I
remember from my using years is that they're still quite solid and
reliable machines, so hoping that someone out there have used them for
many tasks in their networks...
Macs are:
mac IIci :-)
pm6100 (64mb ram/2GB scsi hdd/cdrom)
power wave 4312 clone with sonnet 266 card, 64mb ram/1x2gb and 1x2gb
scsi hdd/cd rom)
pm 8600 with xlr8 300 card, 412mb ram/8gb scsi hdd/cd rom/zip/Ati 8mb
pci video card
epson stylus pro printer and apple coulorone scanner
They all have ethernet ports and running on os9.
cheers
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