My Reply follows quote. On 03/07/2003 15:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >jimwg wrote: > >> >> Greetings: >> >> Subject line tells it all. I file-share/backup between my PB190 and 6320 >> via AppleTalk over a printer port and it's so dang sloooow! Can I >> possibly use TCP/IP as an option? > >Absolutely. > >You'll need an ethernet card for the 190, since I don't think that's >built-in. If it is all the better. > >The bog-simplest way is to buy a cheap ethernet hub, and one ethernet >cable for each computer, plug it all together, turn 'em on and set >appletalk to use the ethernet. Voila. > >The *cheapest* way is to connect the two with a crossover cable, but you >will run into the situation whereby the first mac booting up will not >'see' anything on the ethernet, and set it's appletalk back to the >prnter port. You'll have to be constantly turning appletalk back to the >ethernet port on one or the other of the systems if you do it this way. ------------ However, that is not TCP/IP as I understand things. That is AppleTalk over Ethernet or, maybe EtherTalk? Still, a quantum improvement over printer port AppleTalk.
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