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Networking Executor with Macs via Ethertalk



Remember my posting about the need for ethertalk?  Well, the native need is
still there, but I got a taste of what it could be like, hooking your PC up
to an all-mac network and sharing everything over Ethernet without breaking
a sweat.

Right now (after another marathon session of tweaking system parameters -
anybody know how I can increase conventional memory???), I have Farallon's
PhoneNet 3.0 installed and working on my laptop.  Truely, if you were
wishing that PC's had the ease of networking that every Mac has coming out
of the box, this is the next thing you'd get after Executor (to run all
those Mac apps, of course!)

With this installed (and nothing else in resident memory, in order to have
enough space for everything to load), I can attach to my PowerMac (which I
made a server for the time being) and make lpt1 my network laser printer
(takes care of my printing problems!).  When attaching to the server's
drives, you make each in turn D:, E:, etc. - very cool, but cooler still
when you run Executor afterwards...

Ha!  Now I have a direct ethernet link to my PowerMac's drives and CD roms,
all while running Executor on my PC notebook!  I can work with the same
data files in Executor (like Quicken, etc.), switch to Windows (if I can
ever figure out how to do it without having to reboot Executor to fix the
video) and then work with Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc. for applications that
are native.

The only bad thing here is that, because networking is handled through the
Windows/DOS side of things, and all Executor sees is that network drive,
all the files on my PowerMac show up like PC files - ie, in Executor, Apps
don't show up as apps, and filenames are truncated to 8.3 character names.
I'm doing the workaround with Stuffit on this end and the other, but it
would be a heck of a lot easier if I could just manipulate directly.  It'd
be even cooler to see the icons, but again - I wait for E/D 3.0, like
everyone else.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to make my laptop an AppleTalk server...

TC

BTW:  Does anyone know a net-based source for updated video and sound
drivers?  This CTX notebook works pretty well, but I think Executor would
work better (ie, switch to Windows & back, have sound) if I updated the
drivers...

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| TC Lai                   (Pre)Cognitive Science Undergraduate,          |
|                          University of California, Los Angeles          |
| tclai@ucla.edu                                                          |
|                          Macintosh Poweruser, Student Animator,         |
|"Those who dare, win."    Shareware Author, Small Business Owner.        |
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