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- From: Duane Clark <duane@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: How do you set up a LocalTalk net b/t 2 Macs???
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:17:07 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs
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- In article <1993Jan25.075421.26585@mic.ucla.edu> Chad Jones,
- cjones@physci.ucla.edu writes:
- >>For the LocalTalk connection I've tried both PowerUser LocalTalk
- >>connectors from MacConnection and PhoneNet-type connectors (obviously
- >>I didn't try to combine the two types of connectors). I've plugged
- >>the connetors into the Printer ports on both computers (I've also
- >>tried the Modem port, but that shouldn't work, right?).
- >
- >Did you terminate the extra port on each PhnoNet connector? You should
- >have gotten an RJ-11 plug with a 120 ohm resistor across two of the
- >contacts that you use as a terminator.
- >
- >Also, make sure you have LocalTalk selected in the network control panel.
-
- And be sure you make Appletalk active in the Chooser.
-