On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Michael B. wrote: > Hello to the list...
Welcome! > I'm VERY new to the list (just subscribed last night), as well as VERY > new > to Macs. I just got a wonderful Power Mac 7300/200 from a friend two > days > ago, and I just got my Mac IIfx that I bought for 50 cents running. I > have > an extensive PC network in my home, running TCP/IP on 10/100 BaseT TP > Ethernet. The PC machines are mixed, with 1 Win95 laptop, 2 Win98SE > desktops, and 2 Win2000Pro desktops. All get their Internet connection > via a > cable modem, which is connected to one of the Win2000Pro machines via > Internet Connection Sharing. I have Internet working fine on all > machines, > Win and Mac. What I'd like to do, however, is share files. Old Mac, newer Mac, want to share files on network. Got it. My first major question is how technically knowledgable are you? Some of this stuff can get a little sticky so I need to know how comfortable you are with it. > I'd like to be able to get files from the PCs to the Macs (and vice > versa) > as easily as I do PC to PC. No FTP servers running (and no forgetting > to put > the one file I need on the FTP server) is my requirement. I have heard > about > PCMacLAN and DAVE, but they are $200 and $150, respectively. I cannot > afford > that, and few home users can. I will not spend $200 on software for > machines > that combined are worth less than that. Dave is nice but not completely necessary. All you need are to get two things working: 1) All Macs talking to all the other Mac. 2) A way to get the PCs to talk to the Macs or a jumping off point just for files. > Does ANYONE know of any no or low cost PC to Mac networking solutions, > or > have any ideas on how to do this? I have heard something about Win2000 > Server having Mac networking solutions, but I have the Pro version. I > did > notice that my Pro version has an AppleTalk network driver, but I can't > get > it to work at all. I have even thought about either using a Linux > server as > a go-between, or waiting until I can afford a G3 upgrade and installing > OS X > to see if that will connect better, but that is still not solution for > the > IIfx. First off - all the Macs, once you make sure that their software is up-to-date - downloadable from Apple for the most part, should talk to all the other Macs using the Chooser and Appletalk. This should happen really without modification. Second - for the most part, in my opinion, the lowest cost solution is a linux box and a package called netatalk which allows the Linux server to emulate an Appletalk server. Using that and Samba you can set up file sharing for both the Macs and the PCs. This is what I do at home. I have an SUSE Linux box that does Windows and Mac file sharing and it works just fine. Although there were some issues with X and netatalk. Anyway give me some idea of what you exactly want to share and your technical experience and we'll go from there. Mike Hebel -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
