After being given a freebee K6 at a job site, i took it home and spent the 3 or 4 minutes (!) it took to install BeOS (5.0.3 Pro) Haven't been running BeOS though for a year and so had my Be files all backed up on my Mac..now I want to transfer them back..setting up file sharing on the Mac is no problem (it also supports sharing over TCP-IP)..but i cant find the equivalant setup on the BeOS machine..nothing seems quite appropriate... I have looked at some third party options at BeBits, but again.. Setting up FTP might be an option, but i'm afraid it's going to be kind of slow (I'm talking about almost 100 Gigs of data...). In any case, I'm not sure which machine would be the best server with that option, or how to set FTP up in the first place. Parallel cable is of course, out, as it's even slower.. Both Machines have USB, is there any way I can adapt that? By the way, both machines are plugged into the same hub (router? unsure what the difference is...) which connects to my hispeed ISP... Any Ideas? Thanx...

To start with you can only store zipped files on any other os. The extended attributes of beos will be lost. USB will not work (well, slim chance). You might be able to use parallel but that is very complex. I might set up either as a ftp server or telnet. Don't forget that you can use the ftp command line on either. One has to have setup a share. 5.03 is closed so you have to open ftp in network panel. Being on the same hub is OK. If they had non-routerable numbers behind a router that would require more settings. On the same hub and on the same subnet ought to be easy. Here is some info. wiki <dot> bebits <dot> com/page/ConnectingBePCs

Sure, natch they were all zipped..i finally broke down and resorted to FTP - since setting up BeOS as an ftp server is so ridiculously simple..and suffered through the Mac OS9 "one file at a time " transfer (since mac OSX's connect to server option kept giving a 'no URL available- "please check settings [error no. 1]")...*but* I found a 35.00$(!) shareware app that *did* connect tho... transfers folders at 500 to 800 KbPS (pretty decent..even got up to a meg a second at times...) so i got some major stuff transfered.. Lack of a decent NFS, however, plus lack of Quartz,and any real Java Core (not the Version 1.0 'personal Java') ... (and can you just *imagine* how much better BeOS would be with quartz?!!!!!- now if BE had really continued Development instead of these 'kernel hackers' out there that aren't actually adding anything new to the code (and i'm specifically *not* referring to Loon, who i think has done an Incredible! job, even though he too hasn't rewritten (much) the kernel either...) but to others,who despite their apparent 'legitimacy' are still just 'kernel hackers'. Not that i don't appreciate it at times... Even my cat's name is 'Zeta" p.s. if anyone knows way to update thew 'personaal java' or Be Kaffe, or the java that came with Hot Java for BeOS, then there's a pre-compiled (Java) P2P client (made by many of the limewire developers) designed for *any* OS (being java, after all...)that will run on BeOS (called Frostwire) Have it..just have no VM for it....