My Reply follows quote. On 03/07/2003 15:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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jimwg wrote:
Greetings:
Subject line tells it all. I file-share/backup between my PB190 and 6320 via AppleTalk over a printer port and it's so dang sloooow! Can I possibly use TCP/IP as an option?
Absolutely.
You'll need an ethernet card for the 190, since I don't think that's built-in. If it is all the better.
Nope, the 190 will indeed need a PC Card Ethernet NIC.
>The bog-simplest way is to buy a cheap ethernet hub, and one ethernet cable for each computer, plug it all together, turn 'em on and set appletalk to use the ethernet. Voila.
The *cheapest* way is to connect the two with a crossover cable, but you will run into the situation whereby the first mac booting up will not 'see' anything on the ethernet, and set it's appletalk back to the prnter port. You'll have to be constantly turning appletalk back to the ethernet port on one or the other of the systems if you do it this way.------------ However, that is not TCP/IP as I understand things. That is AppleTalk over Ethernet or, maybe EtherTalk? Still, a quantum improvement over printer port AppleTalk.
Yes, none of the above includes IP. But simply using AppleTalk over Ethernet (which is EtherTalk) will give a tremendous speed improvement. To us IP the 6320 would have to be running OS 9 to support AppleSHARE over IP. The PB190 will need to be running OS 8.1 or have the updated AppleShare Extension to use ASIP. This will give a modest improvement over AppleShare over AT.
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