[G4] Networking a PC

rich northouse rnorthouse at wi.rr.com
Sun Feb 8 18:30:42 PST 2004


Dan & Paul,

Thanks for the info. It appears as if Dan's link info will help a great 
deal. Thanks for your help,        Rich


On Feb 8, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> I've a Brother 1470N and 3 macs connected via 2 hubs and ethernet 
> connected.  No problem.
>
> Paul Moortgat
>
> On 9-feb-04, at 00:31, Daniel Brieck wrote:
>
>> Rich,
>>
>> Check out this link from apple support, it should help you out for 
>> file sharing. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19652  
>> Now sharing a printer is a different story if you are using mac os 
>> 10.3 built in printer sharing, which I think does not work. Has 
>> anyone got this to work at any level?
>>
>> Dan Brieck Jr.
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2004, at 3:45 PM, rich northouse wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gang,
>>>
>>> I have a G4 , silver lightning(?)  733 MHz, running OS 10.3.2 
>>> operating on a small ethernet (cat 5 @ 10 MHz). The network consists 
>>> of the G4, an older Mac using OS7 and a laserwriter.
>>>
>>> I teach part-time at a local Tech/Voc school and this term I am 
>>> teaching a beginning computer course. The school uses PCs with 
>>> windows XP so I need to prepare my lectures on a similar beast.  I 
>>> own a ten year old Gateway with a pentium II. It has a nic card 
>>> which is compatible with my network. I just installed Windows 2000 
>>> professional on the PC.
>>>
>>> Can anyone give advice as to what I need to do to get the PC beast 
>>> on Mac network? My main concern is to share the printer, but sharing 
>>> files might also be beneficial.
>>>
>>> I appreciate your help.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, rich
>>
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