can i link together an imac to PC?

[Bill Dewison]

Someone mentioned something about firewires, don’t know what they are, but it sounds good! 😀

Cheers, Dewi

[John Childs]

Assuming that your PC has ethernet, then a simple crossover cable should do the trick.

[magpie]

Cheers, both.

John do you know if any software be required to facilitate file transfer, say between windows xp pro and os9.2?

[John Childs]

Shouldn’t be.

Certainly I can connect to the rogue PC in our establishment from any of our Macs via ethernet with no problems. The PC should show up on your Mac desktop as just another volume.

[jeffus – Graphtec]

Ethernet is a good common network connection, cross over cable if just the two computers as mentioned earlier, and a program like Dave or similar for sharing files and printers etc see link below

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5026

hope this helps

Jeff

[RobGF]

quote magpie:

Any ideas as to the easiest, economical way to connect link my Imac and PC?
Can they be linked via a USB connection or network cable?

Cheers, Peter

If you are using the ethernet route, you can also look at MacLan.

http://www.miramar.com/Products/PC_MACLAN/

MacLan will run on your PC and allow it to see stuff on an AppleTalk network. It will let the PC act as a server to the Mac, the PC to log into the Macintosh, and the PC to see devices set up on a Mac network. As our primary workstations here are Mac, we’ve setup MacLan on our PC’s (RIP’s) with great results. Haven’t used Dave but have heard good thigns about that too.

[magpie]

Thanks all, am looking into these options now.