Macs and PCs

[nicknack]

OK, we have a home network of 3 PC's in our house, and the state recently bought mother an iBook (cuz shes a teacher) and i'd like to know how to get the little POS on the network so she can get online...right now we're using WinProxy to get them all on the net...am i going to have to invest in a router to do it?

thanks :confused:

[jblaze]

Heh, PC's are **** :)
Macs are good. you have to get a program for your PC called PC/Mac LAN.....It enables your PC's to have Apple Talk

[Stef]

You could also run a Linux NetaTalk server, it provides Appletalk functionality for your LAN so you can use file and print sharing :D

[nicknack]

is there a hardware solution available? i'm sick of this software stuff bogging down my pc :cry:

[brembo]

Seems to me that a router would do the trick. Whats the router gonna care if its hooked to a mac or a pc? Routers are pretty cheap, heck see if the state will spring for a router.

[alkxy74]

TCP/IP is TCP/IP and is platform independent.

Set TCP/IP settings in the Mac using the same parameters as used for the Wintel machines. Since you are using WinProxy which is a software based NAT, this will work fine for sharing DSL for the Mac also.

A router has been a good hardware solution for my home LAN.

Won’t share files, however.

Apple Talk and Windows won’t talk. You can put PC MACLAN on the Wintel machines as noted above, or put software on the Mac (Thursby makes a package known as DAVE. This has a couple of versions to allow a Mac to share with a Wintel machine using TCP/IP or NetBEUI), or work through a server that talks to both protocols as noted above.

I have a 5 machine LAN at home, 4 Wintel machines and an iMac, all share ADSL through a Linksys BEFSR41 router uplinked to a 10/100 switch. Easy to set up and has been trouble free for me. I had a PPPoE connection until about a year ago, and have been on static IP since then. Both protocols worked fine for sharing through the Linksys. You don’t need to share files and printers to share DSL.

I use DAVE on the iMac for file sharing. I got the “lite” version with file sharing only (no printer sharing) as I don’t have any Post Script compatible printers at home.

PC MACLAN is better than DAVE out of the package IMHO, but you have to purchase a seat for each machine whether you use PC MACLAN or DAVE. I got one seat for the Mac instead of 4 for the PCs.

Works great for what I need to do at home.