Does anyone know how to set up a fileserver on a Win2K box for Macs? Also, does an SE/30 accept PowerPC accelerators?
There are at least four ways of setting up a fileserver on a Win2K box for Mac clients.
a) If your Win2K is the server version, I believe the install CD comes with an optional AppleTalk stack (for serving only), just as NT Server did. Win NT Workstation, and therefore probably Win2K Workstation also, did not include this feature. If you have Server, you set up AppleTalk shares and then the Macs can mount those shares from the Mac Chooser using AppleShare/AppleTalk. Under Win NT Server, the setting up of the AppleTalk shares takes place not in the Windows Explorer (or whatever you call the Windows "Finder thingie", drilling down from "My Computer"), but rather in the ancient and arcane Windows 3.11-ish File Manager, which has a menu item that pertains to Apple services sharing. I guess chances are good that under Win2K they moved this functionality to some place more modern (Forgive me, I'm obviously more familiar with NT Server).
b) There is an aftermarket AppleTalk stack for Windows that I'll vouch for as easy to set up and use (at least by adding-protocols-to-Windows standards): Miramar Systems' PC MacLan. Oops, now owned by Computer Associates which bought them out, I keep forgetting that. Same product, though. Once you've got it installed, you right-click any volume or folder and select AppleTalk Sharing, give it a name, and you're golden. On the Mac it appears like any other share via the Chooser using AppleShare/AppleTalk. Going the other direction, you can also mount Mac shares via Network Neighborhood. Back when Miramar owned it you could download trial versions, dunno about that now that CA has the product.
c) There's a competing product I have less familiarity with, called XTreme Z-IP, which does the same thing as PC MacLan. They are heavily marketed to IT Departments with PC servers and Mac clients. Dunno about individual pricing.
d) Finally, there's a reverse product that puts Windows-style networking on the Macintosh so that pre-MacOS X Macs can access ordinary PC shares: Thursby Software Systems' DAVE. The older versions of DAVE (I used it back in the System 7 days) worked with the older Windows Networking where you'd set up a Workgroup and enter various NetBIOS configuration numbers. I don't know if these older versions of DAVE would play nicely with a modern Active Directory type of Windows Network or not. More modern versions of DAVE do, of course, but I don't know if there are MacOS 9 versions (let alone 68K Mac versions that will run under System 7 etc.).
Regarding an accelerator for the SE/30, there were many at one time, although some aren't being produced any more. There was a 50 MHz '030 accelerator from DayStar and there were some '040 accelerators as well. Doubt that there was a PowerPC card for it. You might find some used on eBay, or if you want a new accelerator I think Sonnet still makes an '040.
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