In my experience Macs have an automatic cross-connection jumper thingy built in. You can use a regular cable to connect a Mac to either another Mac or even a Windows PC. This worked for me with a G4 Powerbook and a Windows XP Pro Generic Lappie.

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aym3ric wrote:

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My questions are:

Can I connect the computers via ethertnet? How?

with a cable.

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one cross-cable or two straight cables hooked on a hub or switch

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What do I need to do to setup the ports and IP addresses?

just make sure it's on the same network (same ip range, same netmask ...)

example: pc = 192.168.0.10 mac = 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0

make sure you don't have any firewall running on both machines, or you may not go very far with netsend/netreceive.

a.

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tested only on my g5 powerbook

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Hi,

Thanks for the hints, I got the computers connected and working.

Enrique

On Apr 6, 2005 5:44 AM, Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is wrote:

Hi Enrique, You just have to make sure the computers are on the same subnet. So if you give one IP number 192.168.0.1 and the other 192.168.0.2 use subnet 255.255.255.0

You may have to use a crossover cable if you're going to connect them directly with a single ethernet cable between the two. However, I think most recent macs have crossover detection so they detect when a crossover is needed and adjust themselves accordingly. If you go through a hub you don't need crossover cables.

Palli

enrique franco wrote:

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Hi,

I am working on a multimedia project and I need to connect a PC and a MAC for processing Gem and PD patches. I want to control Gem with one computer and audio with the other. I have a PC winxp and an Imac G5 with macosx 10.3.7. I would like to use the netsend & netreceive objects.

My questions are:

Can I connect the computers via ethertnet? How?

What do I need to do to setup the ports and IP addresses?

I will appreciate your help,

Thanks,

Enrique

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