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- From: Walter.Harms@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Walter Harms)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Networking Amigas and Macs
- Date: 17 Jan 96 11:32:27 GMT
- Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik
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- markh@risc.sps.mot.com (Mark.S Harris) writes:
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- >Has anyone out there networked Amigas and Macs over serial ports
- >or a localtalk connection?
-
- >I have an Amiga 3000 and a Mac IIvx that I would like to network
- >together. I would prefer to do this over a localtalk connection
- >but I have been unable to find any Amiga Zorro cards with localtalk
- >interfaces. At one time, i thought there were several venders selling
- >such. Have they all gone out of business?
-
-
- i dont know any appletalk interface for the amiga maybe
- you should use slip/plip in a first try ?
-
-
- >If I get the two machines networked, can the Mac then use the
- >Postscript printer attached to the Amiga? Can the Mac then use the
- >250 Mbytes that I have free on the Amiga? (The Mac has an almost
- >full 80 Mbyte disk. the Amiga is using less than 200 Mbytes of a
- >520 Mbyte disk).
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- if you install the tcpip you can use anything. you can
- install a lp (there is an lpd for the amiga) or nfs
- (that comes with tcpip). I have no idea how it will work
- with mac but with amiga-amiga there is no porblem with
- sharing.
-
- walter
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