[MACEP] in home network w/ crossover cables??

[radams at lane.k12.or.us]

Two more things you could try:

   If both of them have a FireWire connection, use T-Target mode.

    1. Connect the Firewire cable between them (must be the D shaped plug on
both ends.  I borrow one from an external drive temporarily.
    2.  Take the computer that you want to send files TO and start it up
normally.
    3. Take the one they are coming FROM and start it up but hold down the T
key after you hear the bell.
    4.  The FROM computer will start up with the FireWire symbol and on the TO
computer, you'll suddenly see the hard drive icon for the FROM computer. 
Open it up and copy files back and forth as you wish.
   This is also a dandy technique to use when a computer isn't booting right
and you desperately need the files from it.  Make the damaged computer the
FROM computer you start up holding down the T key.  Many times the hard
drive will be good enough to show up on the other computer, even if it
can't boot.  This technique works if you have a FireWire cable, no matter
what the OS version.


Other, older version: Sneaker Net.

  Get a 1 Gb or smaller "thumb drive" (1 Gb advertised for $40 in the Sunday
computer store ads this morning, either Office Depot, Office Max, or
Staples, or Best Buy), load the things you want to transfer onto the drive,
put on your sneakers, walk to the other machine and reverse the process.

This technique is so old it originally had you using 5 1/4 inch floppies for
the transfers.

Another technique: Use CD-ROMs more than once with "Sessions"

I use Toast and burning sessions is easy.  There is a way to do this using the
native OS-X and 9.2.2 burn modes, but you have to use the HELP menu to find
it.

Burn it once, then again, then again -- each new time you put the CD into the
computer, you get a CD icon for each of your sessions.  In a PC, you normally
would only see the latest session as the only thing on the disk.

Also, you might want to look at those Sunday specials and not pay over 5 - 10
cents for each CD.  That's much cheaper than floppies.  I remember paying
$7.50 for one blank 5 1/4 inch floppy in the 80s.

Richard Adams
Pleasant Hill School District


>
> On Sat, February 25, 2006 10:57 pm, JeanineDuBois wrote:
>> Hi, folks!
>>
>> Way back when (probably not quite a decade ago), I
>> remember using a
>> crossover cable to network two computers and share (copy
>> via network)
>> files. I'm thinking that would be a handy way of doing
>> back-ups at home
>> these days, since burning CD's would get expensive, and my
>> zip disks
>> only hold so much space. I'm running Mac OS X and also Mac
>> OS 8.6. Any
>> thoughts on how and if to use a crossover cable to network
>> them or to
>> network 2 Macs running OS X? And anyone remember / know
>> what the
>> distinguishing marks are on the cable to designate
>> crossover versus
>> Ethernet? I've got 3 cables with the cat 5 size ends, and
>> I'm pretty
>> sure one of them is a crossover cable.
>>
>> Thanks for any insights you can offer,
>> --Jeanine
>>
>
> How recent is the Mac with OS X? Most Macs from the past
> few years have network cards that will auto-sense the
> connection type and configure them selves appropriately.
> I've used non-crossover cables to directly connect my
> iBook to other Macs as well as to PCs. I've also used
> cross-over cables (in a pinch) when a normal cable was
> what I should have needed. If one of the Macs is less than
> 2 or three years old, I don't think it matters what cable
> you use.
>
> You will have to configure IP addresses on both computers,
> though.
>
> --
> Arne Berglund
> Lane ESD Internet Services
> aberglun at lane.k12.or.us
> (541) 461-8343
>
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