There is a software soultion: IPNetRouter by http://www.sustworks.com/ It will let you use on e IP address with one cable modem. The only backdraw is that the iMac running IPNetRou…

Well, that's not quite true. Software like IPNetRouter works great for this sort of thing except for 1 little problem - the server machine must have 2 ethernet ports, one to connec…

Is your cable modem connected to the uplink port on your ethernet hub? If not, you will need to use an ethernet crossover cable to get the communication between your iMac and cable…

Right, the good people at Ask Dr. Farallon got back to me with the details on how to set up this sort of home LAN. The cable modem can connect with a standard cable to the uplink p…

There is the breeznet by http://www.breezecom.com/, an ethernet over radio solution. Its expensive but you can use the network while moving up to 50 mph.

some brief comments on today's edition of both MacNN and iMac2day (2/10).

The ide bus can only have 1 master and 1 slave on the chain. If you want more IDE drives, you need a second IDE connector from a 3rd party card. JohnW

www.imacresetbutton.com .

Hi, Here's a cheap way to get a floppy drive for your iMac when you buy it. Since you'll probably need a USB-serial adapter anyway, why not pick up a Mac SE/30 or better? They can…

I was in your position a bit ago -- I had a bunch of SCSI periphs & an ADB printer. But I bought an iMac August 15, anyway. I just kept the Performa with all the periphs &…

There are USB to SCSI and USB to serial and USB to ADB connectors now.

tgrant do you know of a way to use a imac as a monitor for a B&W G3. I have seen i done and really need to know how

There shouldn't be any problems doing your transfer. ------------------ -- Dave Gammage, MCSE Network Administrator Stouse, Inc.

If you are going to be passing data back and forth all the time, there are two ways we use to speed things up: First, most of our machines have Zip disk drives. That's our usual "…

Hi, I've done what you've mentioned and had no problems. I assume you want to use Appletalk, so you'll have to select "Ethernet" in the Appletalk control panel. Then you have to o…

Thanks for the infor. My company bought 42 and one of the new g3 montior card when south. Got a replacement in two days. ------------------ David Stafford dms@fastlane.net

I would wait and hold out for OS X Server before making a switch over to NT. NT is a good product, but there are a lot of little bugs and fixes to know about if you are running a M…

How many user's and database's are you supporting? Are your user connecting by AppleTalk or TCP-IP to the FileMaker Pro Server? Connecting to the database via IP better than AT. …

Our office is composed of Mac workstations, and Sun servers. Our one token NT machine is the File Maker server. We haven't had any problems with it, It has never crashed on it's ow…

I work in an office with an NT 4.0 network, Novell 5.0 & Unix networks. The NT is a piece of crap. We'd feel lucky if it only crashed once a month! Novell, on the other hand…

I don't know how far they can go but, to get long lengths, you have to go to your dealer or anyone that can make cables and ask them to make it and how long it can go.

Category 5 Ethernet cable runs can be a maximum of 100 meters without any sort of repeater. Anything longer than that will require a repeater inline. Are you utilizing a hub-to-hub…

Farallon makes some LocalTalk to Ethernet connectors. Check their web site.

I sent email to sales@keyspan.com. They answered my question about an adapter for my HP 4 ML by telling me it would be available in April and probably cost $100. Suggest you try th…

My printers all now work. The Epson connects through the Keyspan USB and the HP 5MP goes through Farallon's iPrint ethernet to localtalk. All's well that ends (prints) well.