Networking PC and Macs

[rinvelt]

I've got a friends office who needs to network PC and Mac's. I'm fine with the PC side of the coin, but having problems with the MAC side.

First off is the ethernet cards for the different Mac and I think buses. Any idea if I can just go with PCI cards for these computers?

Proforma 6115CD
PowerPC 6500/250
Proforma 6360

They also have a Powerbook 1400CS any idea how to contect that?

[BlindWillie]

Check out this article:

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/features/reports/networking3/

[rinvelt]

Thanks willie, but I'm having troubles just getting ethernet cards into the Mac machines and I don't really want to go with appletalk. Is it fine just to go with PCI cards?

[Kahuna]

I have my Mac networked over an Ethernet network with 6 other PCs in a peer to peer network with no file server. I used an Asante PCI card (NIC-PCI) that came with both Mac and PC software. I order to talk to an NT network I use a software program called DAVE 2.01, it was easy to install and set up and you don't have to load anything on the PCs and it does not use Appletalk. The only catch is if you are using a local modem to acess the internet instead of the network modem you have to select a different configuration in your TCP/IP control panel when ever you want to log on and in doing so you are disconnected to the ethernet port for the time you are logged on.
Hope this helps
Greg/CDA