Re: Localtalk gateway/bridge

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Steve Quarrella" <Steve.QuarrellaNOSPAM@f9005.n393.z1.fidonet.org> wrote in
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> * Crossposted to MACSYSOP : Macintosh Sysop's Conference
>  * Crossposted to APPLE : International APPLE Echo
>
>
> I am using Apple's free LocalTalk Bridge 2.1, as found here:
>
> http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?type
> =id&val=60290&KCID=262407&sid=anonymous|1293608
>
> Anybody have any experience with this?  Maybe the setup I'm running isn't
> kosher, as I'll explain, or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
>
> The software is installed on a Power Mac I have behind me.  The Mac's
Ethernet
> port is goes into a 10/100 hub that I have, and the LocalTalk connector I
have
> in the thing connects back to an Apple IIgs machine and nothing else.
>
> On the Ethernet side, I have a Windows NT box that's running Services for
> Macintosh, and I am 100% certain that that box is not configured to route
> AppleTalk (as the documentation for the Bridge says this is a no-no, and I
can
> confirm that the software does not work if the NT box IS routing
AppleTalk. :).
>
> If I go to the IIgs system, I can access the shared Power Mac, so I know
things
> are workign on the LocalTalk side.  If I go to the Mac, I can see the
Macintosh
> volume I've created on the NT server.  A sees B, B sees C.
>
> I'd like A to see C, though, so I could simply drop my Apple II files onto
the
> NT Mac volume.  Anybody know if this is doable?  Is there a better way to
do
> this?   Right now, the end result is that I have the best of both worlds
on the
> Mac, where I can talk to both topologies without a lot of muss or fuss,
but I
> still have to do a little bit of wheeled-chair multitasking in order to
bring
> files from the Apple II over to the PC.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions...
>

Is the Services for Macintosh only available on NT Server? I have
Win 2K Professional and the only thing I can find is an Appletalk
protocol. I have the Mac set to 192.168.0.3 in MacTCP but
from Win2K, the Mac is not found when I ping that address. I
can't find a way on the Mac in System 7.5.5 to ping the PC.
I don't have a DNS server and the other option is a Gateway.
Would that be my proxy server on the Win2K machine?

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