Well, the physical answer is, buy and ethernet card for your SE, install it,
and plug it into the network. You are there.
The protocol answer is more complex. You can load IPX on your Mac (Dayna sells
this) and then you can log into the Novell file server. Or you can load the
Mac NLMs on the Novell file server -- it ll then talk AppleTalk -- and your Mac
can log into the Novell server as though it were an AppleShare file server.
Of course, it sounds like you don't just want file services. It sounds like
you also want to the services that WordPerfect Office offers. As far as I know
WordPerfect Office is still DOS-only code; last I heard, the Mac version was
still in beta test. So basically, you would need to log into the Novell server
using one of the two protocol methods outlined above, then load SoftPC on the
SE/30 and run the WordPerfect Office stuff. Sounds pretty painful and slow and
expensive to me, particularly for the sake of one ancient Mac. Probably
cheaper to buy an Intel box and put it on desk.
--sk
In article <1992Sep1.194708.18158@unlv.edu>,
gerardo@taj.cs.unlv.edu (Gerry Martinez) writes:
> How do I hook up a MAC SE on a Novell Ethernet network? The network is mainly IBM's and at work they told me it could not be done. We are using Wordperfect Office---Does's WordPerfect make this for the MAC as well? I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me. Thanks...
