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networking apples and pc's Hooking up dated pc's

#1 scott lindberg

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Posted 28 June 2004 - 08:07 PM

I have a G3, first series apple, a windows 98 pc and a Dell latitude laptop.
The G3 had a 100 gig drive. I am hoping to scan my entire photo collection to this drive and then use the G3 as a server w/ and open directory to all my friends and relatives.

I am lost as to how to do it. I have a cable modem that has wireless capability and I use the Dell laptop for work so I bring it home and am always hooked up to the wireless connection. I would like to share files on the G3 but am not sure if all these pieces will support that especially the windows 98 pc. (AMD processor)

Is there a kit or a easy tutuorial to get this all to work, or is this idea ridiculously outdated.

Any suggestions from anyone would be truly appreciated.

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Posted 28 June 2004 - 09:06 PM

What version of Apple OS are you running?

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#3 scott lindberg

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Posted 29 June 2004 - 06:30 AM

OS X - last version before panther.

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Posted 29 June 2004 - 10:14 AM

You will need to configure Samba on the Mac in order for your PC's to be able to connect to shares on there.

Read this article for more information:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html

#5 Haus

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Posted 24 July 2004 - 09:23 PM

Hello
I am not real savvy on Mac's but here is a site that might be helpful also.

http://www.macwindows.com/

#6 ms-fixit

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 10:30 AM

I used to work on the Apple Canada Technical Answerline, but my Mac knowledge is about 4 years out of date. The good thing is the Apple KnowledgeBase has info on this very subject :thumbsup: