Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Hi all

Work have asked me to demonstrate the newfangled art of home DV editing by using my own kit to record and edit a message from our chief exec for a conference next month. I plan to take my iMac into work while I do the edit.

What I want to know is, is it possible to add my machine - OSX, 10.2.8 - to the Novell network at head office? And how would I do it, as the IT support desk sure as eggs won't know.

I am in danger of creating a finished Quicktime movie larger than the largest storage medium I have access to (the 256mb SD card in my digi camera!) as, believe it or not, I do not have a CD burner for my Mac. Please, no-one tell me to go buy one, my son is spending all my money at the mo :disturbd: ;) :) So if I can't connect my Mac easily to the office LAN, and the film is too big for my SD card, next best is to create my own little network between my Mac and a laptop from the office - IBM Thinkpad with Win2k. But how do I do that?

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Can you not just get a novel client for mac os... ????

I am sure I have seen them about.....

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Probably, but I ain't about to pay for it, and for a little demo of 'new' technology, nor are they. The solution needs to be a little rougher than that - I guess I was asking about the Novell network more out of academic interest, it seems to me the only realistic solution is to link my Mac and a PC as a little network all of their own, however that is done ...

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Do you need file level access ?????

If you do I would stick an extra nic in the pc and run an ftp server on the pc.....

HTH

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Well I don't think you'd get too far in adding the mac to the novell network unless you run the netware software on the mac.

Stuartbe's suggestion is probably the best, run an ftp server or export a directory as samba/nfs on your mac, you should be able to physically attatch your mac to the network and assign it an ip address, which you can then use to access the server and grab the file.

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

Hmmm...if it was connected a PC to a Mac network, then it would be v. simple....but the other way round. Try this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19652

HTH

Re: Mixed Mac/PC networking question
 

That hit the nail very nicely on the head - thanks!