Re: Localtalk gateway/bridge

["Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.SPAMBGONE.com>]

Ah, that's right!  Mark, the man with the golden network.  :)

I meant to ask you, what exact brand of network card is in your Win98 PC?  I
think you have an Asante card in the Mac, right?

Cheers, and thanks for posting!!
Tim

"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> > I've been trying to get the same thing working for a while now, but took
a
> > little hiatus.  Some people seem to think that it is possible, and I
think
> > that there is one guy that actually has it working but by using PC
MACLAN
> on
> > the PC side.
>
> Yes, I am that guy, and I don't think it's possible, I know it is :). My
> setup is on a Win98 PC (not Win2K) running PC MACLAN. My PC's have 10Base2
> network cards. I have a 68K Mac (Q605) with a network card and AAUI 10
Base2
> TXR. I'm running LocalTalk Bridge on the Mac and AppleTalk is set to
> "ethernet" and my GS is running AppleShare. I _CAN_ see both my Mac and PC
> from the GS !
>
> I cannot help with Appletalk services on Win2K or NT (whatever) because I
> don't _ever_ want to waste any more money on Bill's little decaying empire
> :). I think that's where your problem lies. I don't have a PowerMac either
> yet, but I'm working on it eventually. Possibly you can see your Win2K
from
> your Power Mac because of the Mac OS and AppleTalk Services combo.
>
> Maybe you should look at PC MACLAN to see if it works on Win2K or NT
> machines. Another application I have heard of is DAVE, but I think it's
> harder to set up and not quiite as good.
>
> On another note: I can also print from the PC to 2 Appletalk printers I
have
> on the Localtalk side. One is a LocalTalk ImageWriter II and the other I
> just got 2 days ago is an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 via the AppleTalk
> connector. This is only possible through the use of PC MACLAN's AppleTalk
> protocol. Although I could place the Laser between my PC and Mac on
> different printer ports, this approach will allow me to leave my inkjet on
> my PC on the only parallel port I have working, but still have access to 2
> other printers.
>
> I assume you know that you won't ever be able to see your GS from you PC
or
> Mac, because the GS doesn't run as a file server. But as far as
transfering
> files goes, it works better than the floppy shuffle, and file names are
> preserved better too. You can actually unshrink a disk image running GSHK
> directly off your PC this way. Saves a lot of wear and tear on the drives.
>
> One issue I haven't solved is connecting to the internet on the PC's
modem,
> and running a IP sharing application so my Mac aand other PC's can surf, I
> lose file and printer sharing between the PC and Mac side of the network.
> Stopping the PC's IP server doesn't fix the problem alone, it stays this
way
> until I reboot the PC.
>
> Mark
>
>
> > > 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...
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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