Hi Steven, Bob Again from memory.... Provided ONE of the Macs is newish it should have autosense and switch to accommodate normal or X-over cables. I'm sure the Macbook pro should have it - so I think you should be OK connecting from it with either cable.
HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/9/07 11:27 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 02/09/2007, at 6:54 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Steven, >> >> I'm going a bit on memory re OS9 but if you are going to transfer over >> ethernet, first make sure you have file sharing on the OS9 machine >> turned >> on and the hard disk (or partition, if relevant) where the data >> resides set >> as shared. >> >> You may probably need some of those extensions you've turned off >> back on for >> it all to work. Generally (but not always) extension problems were >> due to >> third party extensions - so go with just turning on the basic Apple >> extension set. >> >> OSX should see OS9 over ethernet -so make sure you connect from the >> OSX >> MacBook Pro to the OS9 Powerbook and not vice-versa. If the machine >> still >> won't show up when browsing the network try checking the actual >> ethernet >> address on the OS9 machine and put that in as the "connect to" >> address on >> the OSX machine. > > Re the ethernet connection : > Older Macs when connected together via ethernet needed a " crossover > " cable ! > > Explanation : Your ethernet has a "go" pair , and a "receive" pair > of wires . > It follows that the " go" of one Mac must arrive at the "receive" of > the other Mac . > > Ordinary ethernet cables have the same connections at both ends , > making them > connect go to go and receive to receive . This obviously cannot > work ! > Hence the need for a crossover ethernet cable . > > In later models of Macs , the ethernet circuitry senses the incoming > signal > and will switch internally to complete a working connection. > > So it depends on the Macs you are dealing with whether you must have > a crossover cable . > > HTH's > > BOB > > > > > >> >> HTH >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> on 2/9/07 4:05 PM, Steven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hoping someone can please give me some tips on how to copy data >>> from a >>> PowerBook G3 to my MacBook Pro? >>> >>> I understand the PowerBook has OSX installed, but it doesn¹t seem >>> to boot up >>> with OSX it only seems to boot up with OS 9.2.2. Even then, bombs >>> and what >>> not appear on start up, unless I boot up with Extensions off. The >>> PowerBook >>> is basically a piece of cr*p, but all I want to do is save the >>> data from the >>> hard disk. >>> >>> The PowerBook has no USB or FireWire port, but it does have an >>> ethernet >>> port. I've connected the two machines via ethernet cable, but then >>> what do I >>> do? If I click on the Network icon on my MacBook Pro, I don't see the >>> PowerBook. >>> >>> Grateful for any suggestions. >>> >>> Regards, Steven >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
