rcleon@lso.win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx) (10/12/89)
Hello,
We have two Macs here and one Lisa running MacWorks. I used to have only
two machines, the Lisa and the Mac and I used to work with the Lisa as a
file server. I didn't have the original AppleTalk box and had a direct
link instead.This works if you have two nodes only, I connected the Lisa
to the Mac as if it were a normal RC232 link.
Now I want to put a third machine in the network, and therefore I got the
ApleTalk boxes. The two Macs can communicate over AppleTalk, no problem, but
how do I connect a Lisa to the network the official way??? Is there a
separate box for the Lisa? If there is, is it an ACTIVE box? The Appletalk
signal levels seem to be much to low: The lisa can talk TO appletalk, but
it isn't receiving anything FROM the network. (Tried this with ordinary
communication software)
Can anyone help me here?
Ernst.
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account).
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Thanks in advance.russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (10/12/89)
In article <456@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> Ernst writes > >how do I connect a Lisa to the network the official way??? Is there a >separate box for the Lisa? If there is, is it an ACTIVE box? The Appletalk >signal levels seem to be much to low: The lisa can talk TO appletalk, but >it isn't receiving anything FROM the network. (Tried this with ordinary >communication software) > > Can anyone help me here? > > Ernst. > > > The Lisa uses it's own box, probably available from Sun Remarketing. It works the same as the Mac boxes. If you have a box connected now, and you can talk TO appletalk but not recieve from appletalk, the problem is in the box, cable, or computer. There is no way to break one side of an Appletalk connection. -- -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu