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436259 2006-03-07 04:39:00 Currentally at home we have 3 PC's running on an adsl router, they can all use the adsl and are all networked making shared files avaliable on other computers.

Now if I was to try and hook a iBook G3 running Mac OS 10 up to this network would it be able to access the adsl and/or files on the other computers? What problems in compatability could I expect?

Note: One of the home computers is running Windows 98, and the other two are running Windows XP home SP2.
Faded_Mantis (79)
436260 2006-03-07 04:59:00 TCP/IP doesn't care about OSs. You'll probably find it easiest to use SAMBA on the Mac. That will let it it access files on, and provide files to, a Windows file system easily. Graham L (2)
436261 2006-03-07 06:39:00 There used to be an network extension that allowed a Windows server (or PC acting as a server) to emulate a Macintosh server. It was considered more robust than the actual Macintosh server, though there was some trouble with long filenames. This is going back a ways though. kingdragonfly (309)
436262 2006-03-07 07:50:00 There used to be an network extension that allowed a Windows server (or PC acting as a server) to emulate a Macintosh server. It was considered more robust than the actual Macintosh server, though there was some trouble with long filenames. This is going back a ways though.

On the Linux side of things, Netatalk works real well as an Apple File Server.
Windows 2000 server has Services for Macintosh.

good site to look at (www.macwindows.com)

Although as Graham L says just use built-in samba software in OS X. You can control the Samba server on OS X more by using Sharepoints (www.hornware.com).
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