On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ed Kummel wrote:
> There are several third party apps that will add an
> appletalk support to the Windows machine. I have
> played with some (Dave comes to mind) and they all
> seem to work in connecting a Windows machine to a Mac
> network. I don't think that there would be a problem
> in running this on a windows machine and hooking up a
> Newt...I believe the software runs about $70...which
> is cheaper than running a used Mac.
Err, no, this solution will _not_ work.
All of those apps are cllosed. They let you connect to something like
AppleShare - letting Macs mount PC drives. The Newton doesn't connect to
AppleShare servers or anything like that.
What you want is Newton Connection Utilities to work. NCU for windows
does _not_ support AppleTalk. Period. There is no standard ApplleTalk
protocol stack for Windows, so Apple never included this ability with it.
There is no _useful_ ability to get a Newton onto Ethernet with a Windows
machine otehr than TCP/IP routing to connect to the 'net.
(note, of course, that you can install packages over web servers, so you
might get some useful stuff done that wayl..)
gopi.
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