Re: [WinMac] mac-pc networking on a budget

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:44:26 -0500

At 9:41 AM -0500 9/15/99, John Droggitis wrote:
>The network only has these two machines, and they're connected to
>eachother with a crossover ethernet cable. The mac runs macos 8.5.1 and
>the PC has win98 SE. I know that either PC maclan on the PC or Dave on
>the mac will allow disk sharing among other things, but are there any
>other (preferrably less expensive) choices?

        Well, if you want "real disk sharing" then commercial
products like PCMacLan and DAVE are your best bets. However, if you
can live with a being able to exchange files in other ways, then look
into setting up an FTP server on either/both machines and then using
FTP clients to exchange the files. Works quite well, and you can
find free/cheap products on both platforms.

>How about printer sharing?

        You're pretty much SOL on that one - sorry. There is no way
(that I know of) to network a non-Postscript printer x-platform.

        One thing I do when I want to print color images from my Mac
(my Epson is connected to a Wintel box) is use Acrobat to create a
PDF file, transfer the PDF to the Wintel box and then print it there.
A bit manually, but then I don't do all that much color printing.

        Since the printer is on the Mac, in your case, you could
write an AppleScript to watch a particular folder and automatically
print any file dropped in there - that might work well for you, and
assuming your using the same apps on both sides (Word, etc.) then you
don't even have to worry about PDF.

Leonard

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