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jk August 6th 03 11:24 AM

Applle Mac Question.
 
Real quickly - can Mac's be thrown onto a standard ethernet LAN switch??
Basically, I've got a bunch of PC's connected to my switch at
home...flatmates getting a second hand Mac and I'm wondering if it would be
able to go onto the network as well? It will be running Mac OS 8.7

cheers

- Kwaj



Gareth Church August 6th 03 04:22 PM

"jk" wrote in message
. au...
Real quickly - can Mac's be thrown onto a standard ethernet LAN switch??
Basically, I've got a bunch of PC's connected to my switch at
home...flatmates getting a second hand Mac and I'm wondering if it would

be
able to go onto the network as well? It will be running Mac OS 8.7


Yep, easiest way would be to get a copy of DAVE. It lets you access Windows
shares through Chooser, and displays the Mac under Network Neighborhood on
the PCs.

Gareth



MCheu August 6th 03 10:50 PM

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:24:34 +1000, "jk"
wrote::

Real quickly - can Mac's be thrown onto a standard ethernet LAN switch??
Basically, I've got a bunch of PC's connected to my switch at
home...flatmates getting a second hand Mac and I'm wondering if it would be
able to go onto the network as well? It will be running Mac OS 8.7

cheers

- Kwaj


Yup. The networking protocols aren't platform specific. If you
wanted to, you could theoretically link up an iMac, a WindowsXP PC, a
Linux Machine (oh, let's say running an NEC Alpha Proc to make it
interesting), and an IBM mainframe on the same network -- assuming
they're all using the same protocol of course.

As I don't own a Mac, I can't tell you how hard it will be to set it
up for networking, but seeing as it takes me all of 10 (maybe 5 if I'm
in a hurry) to set up a WindowsXP machine, and maybe 30 minutes to do
it on a Linux machine, I don't see how it can take any more than that
on a Mac.

jk August 7th 03 01:27 AM

OK - worked it out last night. It was actually pretty easy at the end of the
day.

Cheers guys

"jk" wrote in message
. au...
Real quickly - can Mac's be thrown onto a standard ethernet LAN switch??
Basically, I've got a bunch of PC's connected to my switch at
home...flatmates getting a second hand Mac and I'm wondering if it would

be
able to go onto the network as well? It will be running Mac OS 8.7

cheers

- Kwaj






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