Your best bet, ease-of-use-wise and performance-wise, is to install
PC MacLan, which is a classical AppleTalk stack for PC operating
systems, on your PCs. Formerly a Miramar product, it was bought out
by Computer Associates. As far as I know, they haven't done anything
to the product (like ruin it, for instance) since acquiring it.
At least in the Miramar days you could download it for free and use
it in trial mode, just like shareware.
Less pleasantly, you could run one of the DAVE products on the Macs
*IF* you can find one that will run on a 68K Mac *AND* will play
nicely with PC networking schemas in the Active-Directory era, *AND*
you don't mind setting up a TCP/IP network just to do file-sharing
(the latter being unnecessary for AppleTalk and therefore for PC
MacLan).
I used DAVE on a System 7.5.x Mac to network with Windows 3.1 PCs,
and again a few years later on a MacOS 8.6 / MacOS 9 box to network
with a Windows NT domain just prior to the arrival of Active
Directory. It was reliable convenient and smooth once it was set up
but you had to enter all the classical NetBIOS information (Workgroup
or Domain name? Primary WINS address? Secondary WINS address?
LMHOSTS? DNS? Doman Logon name and password?) to make it work, and
*assuming* you could make it network with a modern Active Directory
network at all, the fun would be figuring out what those numbers
actually are, since nowadays you don't type them in on a Windows
Control Panel or anything.
There's a modern-day version of DAVE that works like Rendezvous and
is specifically designed to integrate Macs into Active-Directory
networks, but that's not going to help you with 68K Macs.
EDIT: Hmm, I read "Wintel" and only afterwards read that there's some
PC Linux in the mix as well (which wouldn't really be "Wintel", would
it? "Lintel", perhaps?)... Not sure if there's an open-source
AppleTalk stack for Linux or not, although there are certainly
commercial AppleTalk solutions for Linux servers even if I don't know
the names of them. Again, you want an AppleTalk stack that doesn't
require ASIP, ideally, so you don't have to futz with a local TCP/IP
network just to do filesharing.
At 9:02 PM +0100 6/14/05, Manuel Marques wrote:
Hello,
I own some 68k Classic Macintoshes, and also a couple of Wintel machines.
All five of them have a network adapter. I was wondering here if I could
connect them all in a home network - what shall I use, knowing that I'm a
newbie in home networks?
The two Wintel PCs have both Windows Xp and Linux installed; also got a
SE/30 with Mac OS 7.5.1, a LCIII with 7.6.1, and a IIci, whose operating
system is unknown to me, because its PSU is dead; I'm waiting for a new one.
Any suggestions? Shall I use a hub, a switch, or what? Sharing Internet
access is not a priority to me, what I wanted was a easy file sharing, and
some sort of way of playing Strategic Conquest Plus via network (in the
68k's) and sharing a printer (printing via the LCIII's serial port is simply
slowwwwww)
Waiting for answers.
Manuel Jorge M Marques
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