Need help getting a Mac on Network

[dcsonic2k]

OK. I need to get my Macintosh Performa 575 (it has a nic card) onto my network with a Windows 2000 Pro machine.

The network card works. I can tell when I switch into ethertalk mode on the mac, i can see the mac send out 4 packets to the hub. Problem is, my Windows box can't see the Mac under My Network Places. I've tried pinging the mac, but it doesn't work. Anybody know what settings I need to use on the Mac?

The mac is a 68K mac, so all of the netscape and internet explorer cds that I have don't run on it, otherwise I was hoping that I could use that and just go through a proxy on my Windows machine and download all the stuff I need.

I basically need the Mac to be able to grab files from the PC or at least the PC be able to put files onto the Mac (I noticed the mac has file sharing).

Can anybody help?
Thanks.

 

[bubba]

Macs do not natively speak windows. You could do several things. You could turn on an FTP server on the Windows box and get the files from their with the mac. Or you could run DAVE by thrusby software to speak windows-ese on the mac.

 

[jsm]

Actually, since you are having network problems in the first place, I would recommend getting your Windows box to be able use AppleTalk.

You can get a piece of software from Miramar Systems called PC MacLAN. It's kind of expensive, but with the advent of warez dorkz, I am sure you can find ways around this.

Anyhow, put PC MacLAN on your Windows box, enable file sharing on your Mac and then do what you have need to do.

Oh, and a lot of companies make FAT versions of Mac applications that will work on either PPC or older 68k boxes (even a original 68000 series Mac).