HELP: Macs & PCs on Ethernet Peer to Peer network

[Steve Richards]

I'm working in a Primary (elementary) school in Victoria Australia
with 15 Macs ranging from IIci to 6500 video Editing system. I'll
soon have (I hope!) 7 iMacs as well. I have a switched hub and cat 5
10base T ethernet with one cable to each classroom.

Elsewhere in the school I have a small network of PCs (3 x DX2-66 1 x
P200 MMX) running the library system and a standalone P200 MMX in the
staff room. I'd really like a simple method of transferring files
between the PCs and the Macs.

I'm only running Appleshare peer to peer networking between the Macs
with students able to log into any machine on the network to access
their files. (I have set the Documents Folder on each machine to be
openly available) I've had no problems with hacker type behavior and
don't anticipate any. None of the files are 'mission critical'
although there wouyld be much heartache if much work was lost.

I intend to look at an Apple server solution in next year's budget but
I need a solution now. Shareware or Freeware would be ideal but
budget priced commercial s/w is possible.

Please advise.

Stephen Richards
Learning Technology Co-ordinator

[Eric Wagner]

In article <35c84c55...@news.alt.net>, ste...@netconnect.com.au
(Steve Richards) wrote:

You might try linux as a file server on one of your machines. It supports
appletalk and Windows file sharing. I don't know of any freeware that runs
under macos or windows that will access the other file serving. There is
plenty of payware though.

Good luck,

Eric