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Name: Jim Evans
Date: March 28, 2001 at 14:47:53 Pacific
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I'm a PC user that inherited a Mac Performa 6400/200. I would like to put a network card in it to share a LAN Internet connection. Any suggestions for a cheap NIC, or are there any that are PC/Mac compatible? Or does anyone have one to sell?



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Name: Kevin
Date: March 28, 2001 at 20:13:36 Pacific
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Any PCI NIC should work as long as your running OS 8.5 or higher.. Look for 3com or Linksys.



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Name: MTP
Date: March 28, 2001 at 22:15:53 Pacific
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I have a Power Mac 6100 sharing an internet connection with my Celeron 500 PC. I'm using a program called Sygate that works very well. You can download a trial version from their website. I use version 3 as I've not been able to get version 4 to work. After I loaded it on my PC, I set up the Mac to use ethernet DCHP server in TCP/IP as my PC is the one with the modem and IP connection.


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Response Number 3
Name: Pakorn Koomtritong
Date: March 31, 2001 at 10:42:59 Pacific
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I know 2 programs...
1. PCMacLAN : install on any PCs, then PCs will have Appletalk protocol, browsing any AppleTalk zones, sharing files and printers to MACs.

2. MACSoHo: install on MACs, it will install NetBeui on your MACs. So, you can see PCs in any Domains or any Workgroups.

Both 2 programs, you can download from any download websites.

I hope this may useful for anyone who want.

Pakorn


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Response Number 4
Name: Leo
Date: April 11, 2001 at 23:37:11 Pacific
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Hullo - I'm trying to get an old Quadra 660AV (7.5.2) to connect to my PC-based LAN. I was hoping I could use ppp on the mac (I have FreePPP) and Remote Access Server on my Win NT4 machine and a null-modem cable (i don't have an ethernet adaptor for the mac)
Has anyone tried this before? I believe it has been done using Linux. My problem is that FreePPP has no null-modem option, and seems to be waiting for the modem to initialise, even with the 'Dial using terminal window' option. Any suggestions?


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Response Number 5
Name: Ben Brown
Date: January 27, 2002 at 05:46:38 Pacific
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macs (0S8.5+) can use most cheap (even by windows standards) 100TX PXE Adapters, providing they are powered by the RTL8029 chipset and can be bought from any pc fair for as little $5 and can generally manage about 5mbytes/sec (depending on system speed and config) the drives for both mac and virtually and other platform can be found on RealTek's site a link follows.


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