casbs@csli.Stanford.EDU (Lynn Gale) (07/01/89)
I would like to hear from any of you who have used an IBM-PC on an Appletalk network. In particular, there is a board for the pc called the LocalTalk PC card, which when connected with a LocalTalk connector apparently lets the pc share resources with a Mac, using software called Appleshare PC (which I presume comes with the hardware). I haven't been able to come up with any specific info about this process, so I was hoping somebody on the net had some first-hand experience. We have a Mac II with an internal hard disk and we were wondering if the PC (no hard disk) could use some of its storage. Some specific concerns are: (1) is the interface straightforward from the pc-user's viewpoint, i.e., does the Mac's hard disk look like just another disk drive to DOS applications? (2) will this work on a simple dual-floppy pc (no hard disk)? Can the appleshare software and an application (e.g. Microsoft Word) share one 320K disk, with the other disk free for the user's own documents? Or, even better, could the DOS applications software be stored on the Mac hard disk? (3) if users are on both machines simultaneously, is there any obvious interference in performance? (4) any other negatives to watch out for? Thanks much! Lynn casbs@csli.stanford.edu x3.a37@stanford.bitnet