[jimfazzone]

Hi there,

I'm mainly a PC guy, but a friend of mine has very nicely asked me to help her out with her 2 Macs at her restaurant.

She wants to move data from her notebook (OS 8.6) to her desktop (OS 10), and I'm having some issues. I've allowed the correct access levels on each folder (source and destination), enabled appletalk on both machines (ethernet setting enabled), connected a known working crossover cable - but when i go into chooser on the OS 8.6 menu and open appletalk (on the left side of the window), I don't see the OS 10 machine!

My sincerest apologies if this is nonsensical crap - but can someone pleeeeeease help!?

[arclight]

On the mac that's running OS X: In the Finder go to Go>Connect to Server. This will bring up a dialog to enter an IP address. Depending on what version of X you are running the window may look different. Click on Browse and the 8.6 machine should show up in the list. You can then double click on it to mount it on the desktop or if you're running Panther (OS 10.3) you will simply browse the volume through the finder window.

As long as sharing is on it should all work without a hitch. Another thing, if you try to connect to the OS X machine through the chooser on the 8.6 mac, you will only be able to get to the Public folder anyway. It isn't a big deal since you could simply move the files out of the Public folder later but if you have a lot of files then that might be a hassle.

Re-post if you have problems. By the way, if the OS X machine is fairly recent you will not need a crossover cable. Newer macs have MDIX ethernet ports. I learned this the other day when I posted in this forum. The port automatically switches the green and orange pairs inside the machine. Pretty handy, especially when my anti-mac, PC buddy couldn't find a crossover cable to ping a Linux box he had just setup.

FYI: Don't forget to assign them static IP's in the network control panel on the 8.6 machine, and in the network preference pane on the X mac.

[si_lance]

Perhaps it's just my unix background, but I've seen way too many posts about trying to connect hybrid networks using things like windows sharing or appletalk. There is a standard mechanism for file transferring. It's called File Transfer Protocol or simply FTP. In OS X simply go to system prefences sharing and turn on FTP Access (it becomes an FTP server). On the machine you want to transfer files off of just simply use an FTP client and upload to the server using your OS X username and password (you will need the server's IP address). I just did this to move files off of my Dell notebook to my new G4 iBook. I hope it didn't sound too cynical with the opening remark, and I hope this helps you.

[The Ayatollah]

Originally posted by si_lance:
Perhaps it's just my unix background, but I've seen way too many posts about trying to connect hybrid networks using things like windows sharing or appletalk. There is a standard mechanism for file transferring. It's called File Transfer Protocol or simply FTP. In OS X simply go to system prefences sharing and turn on FTP Access (it becomes an FTP server). On the machine you want to transfer files off of just simply use an FTP client and upload to the server using your OS X username and password (you will need the server's IP address). I just did this to move files off of my Dell notebook to my new G4 iBook. I hope it didn't sound too cynical with the opening remark, and I hope this helps you.

ftp is a nice way to do it, and fast, too. But if you're going to have a hybrid network and you don't want the ftp ports open, then getting file sharing going between mac and windows is useful. I find it helpful between my macs and the windows xp pro box.