networking: was: advice/suggestions re: video editing

[Richard Gilmore]

Are the Macs connected to the Internet? Using OS9 or OSX? You should start off 
with a router to network the Macs together. Macs are quite easy to network so 
that won't be a problem. I have three Macs networked at home. What I think will 
be a bit more challenging is to have all three Macs see all three external 
drives and the digital tape deck. You could plug each drive into each Mac and 
the tape deck as needed of course but if you want all three drives at the same 
time I think you will need a fourth machine to act as a server. You can't 
access external drives through the Chooser. I think you could configure an 
older beige G3 to do the job with minimal cost.

By the look of your email you are at York University? You should get your IT 
department to help you. They could add the drives to their network and you 
could access them that way. If they are using an NT network (likely) you would 
need some third party software like DAVE (if using OS9) to access them but once 
setup it would be relatively easy to use. 

These sites may help

http://www.techtutorials.com/Macintosh/Networking/

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/macnetworking/

http://www.themacintoshguy.com/MacTips/archive/tip30.shtml

http://www.macmobile.com/homenetwork/tutorials.html


Hope this helps

Richard

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Quoting Fabian Ius <Fabian_Ius at edu.yorku.ca>:

> A colleague in another school is attempting to create a Digital Video
> Editing Lab...
> I think they want all 3 Macs to be able to see the 3 external drives plus
> the digital 8 tape deck.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> Any suggestions to offer ?
> 
> >We are trying to network three I Mac Media computers, three Maxtor
> >external hard drives, and a digital 8 taps deck.
> >I have found ail sorts of tech wiring info, but no operational
> >information as to how to set this up or troubleshooting.
> >We are less then the 72 meter limit and want to do this for the purposes
> >of networking a video lab.
> >Does anyone have experience with this or could you direct us to a source?
> 
> 
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