Semi-OT: Macintosh networking
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 2 13:37:07 CDT 2005
The PowerMac is running OS 8.1, hence my confusion.
All of the information I've been able to Google covers
OS 8.5 or higher.
My brother-in-law says he might be able to find the
original OS 8.1 CDs if something needs to be on the
computer that isn't.
I am under the impression that there is no version of
Samba for OS 8.1, or that it was unable to connect to
a SMB/CIFS share.
--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mac OS 8.what? It'll make a bit of a difference
> on what is already included to network and what
> apps you can run. I'm assuming the PowerMac has
> an ethernet port. :) It should be very simple to
> just plug them both into a router and have at it
> by enabling the File Sharing setup. Depending on
> the version of OS 8, DHCP might not work well.
> Newer versions (8.5, 8.6) should work fine. IIRC
> 8.0 and 8.1 might be finicky. The Mini should
> work great with any regular file sharing setup,
> ie, AppleTalk IP, Samba, FTP, etc.
>
> Jon.
>
> On 9/30/05, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone have any experience networking a PowerMac
> > running OS 8.x and a MacMini running OSX? My
> > brother-in-law needs to connect the two, and
> > somehow connect a PC into the network as well.
> >
> > Been considering adding a fourth computer into
> > the mix, a Linux server box, and using a shared
> > Linux drive to share files between the computers.
> > It would involve sharing a Linux directory as
> > both an HFS share and a SMB share simultaneously.
> >
> > However, getting the Macs networked together is
> > the most important bit. We'd be using an Ethernet
> > switch to connect the two Macs together.
> > Considered a crossover cable and discarded that
> > idea early on.
> >
> > I've found some solutions but cheap and/or free
> > is the order of the day here. The expensive
> > solutions tend to be Ethernet and the cheap
> > solutions tend to be weird (such as connecting
> > the two via null modem cable).
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