Re: Apple // networking?

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

I'm not really interested in serial communications since
I am already doing that.  I was thinking more in the line
of it being able to connect to the internet and share
network printers.

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"John L" <jd@logotech.i8.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:15:36 GMT, "william strutts"
> <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:
>
> >Can you move files from Windows 2000 professional
> >to a IIgs directly without the Mac via a LAN?
>
> The easiest way to do this is to transfer files via a null-modem
> serial connection using terminal software on both hosts (eg. Hyperterm
> on the Win2K Pro box and ProTERM 3.1 on the IIgs).  I sometimes use
> this method since it works quite well at 38.4kbps when transferring
> large Shrinkit files (SHK) via ZModem.
>
> The Localtalk bridge on my Mac is sometimes flaky and the IIgs often
> times out when accessing HFS resources on the Mac end.
>
> Other transfer methods include:
>
> 1. Setting up PPP or SLIP to operate over a TCP/IP serial link between
> the Win2K Pro system and the IIgs
>
> 2. Installing a LANceGS network card on the IIgs and use some form of
> NetBIOS file sharing over TCP/IP.  Ethertalk is an other option here
> as well.  I don't think either of the last two services are available
> for the LANceGS network card.
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> John
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