Re: Apple II's and highspeed access

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:46:32 +0000 (UTC), tturner@ecn.ab.ca () wrote:

>If you've got (or know of) specific info that would allow me to network my
>2e and/or 2gs, directly to my current PC network, via (one supposes)
>LANce cards & specific A2 software; WITHOUT being forced to use a Mac;
>I'd love to read it. (& I'm not anti-Mac - I'll get one, one of these
>days, just not in the near future...)  It just feels... `cleaner' (simpler
>& possibly more elegant), to just hang them onto my network, without
>running them through a (older, more capable, big brother) Mac - as if they

Nitpick: The Mac is the Apple II's little brother seeing as it is
about 7 years yonger.  :-)

As to networking an Apple II to the PC, there isn't a whole lot of
options.  You can use a LANceGS card to connect your IIgs to an
ethernet network that is set up to use TCP/IP for moving data around.
However, you can't map a network drive or anything for file sharing.
All you can do is run the TCP/IP applications that are available for
the IIgs to access your PC and this means setting up a web or FTP
server on your PC for your IIgs to connect to.

Andrew Roughan is still working on getting MS-CHAP to work with
Marinetti so hopefully in the not too distant future we'll be able to
connect to the PC using a null modem cable.  If we could get someone
port Samba to the IIgs we'd be all set.  :-)

-- 
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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