Re: Novell for the DOS card in PowerMac 6100

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:27:34 EDT

At 11:51 PM 7/8/96, Larry Niebur wrote:
>I have a school that will have both AppleShare and Novell servers on an
>ethernet LAN. They would like to use DOS cards in PowerMacs to access the
>Novell Netware server when they switch to DOS and the AppleShare server
>when they switch back to the Mac OS.
>
>How much of a hassle is it to set up the machine to work that way? Will
>the machine switch from ipx to appletalk/ethertalk as easily as it will
>switch from DOS to Mac OS?

It's pretty easy, just don't try to use the same protocol on both parts of
the machine. If you stick with IPX on the DOS/Windows side and AppleTalk
on the Mac side and pick one or the other for TCP/IP you'll be fine. It
doesn't even really "switch" as even when you have the Mac OS on the screen
DOS/Windows can still be running in the background.

I have not, however, been able to get Windows 95 networking running
correctly on mine. It may have something to do with the local network.

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