We connect the Macintosh from a BD FACScan to a hard drive partition on an Intel server running Windows NT. Then files are manually transferred from the Macintosh hard drive paritition to the PC hard drive partition with copy and paste. There are probably other ways of accomplishing the same thing. Tim Singleton, MD Flow Cytometry Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI >>> Ulrich Beutner <beutner@chirurgie.uni-wuerzburg.de> 05/22/02 09:10AM >>> >Dear All, > >We have two BD flow instruments and our IT people do not have any experience >on networking the Macintosh computers to the server system. It will be >really appreciated if any of you can provide me with valuable suggestions >and information sources. Thanks in advance. > >Best regards > >Qing Li, Ph.D. >NTTD Department >South Bend Medical Foundation >South Bend, IN > Hi Qing Li, there are many ways to connect Macs with the PC World. What is the best way for you depends on your demands (simply exchange data between two computers or more advanced functions), your financial capabilities and the helpfulness of your IT staff (which you cannot count on, as it seems). Here are some possibilities: Install an FTP server (damon) on your file server. For this you need the help of you IT people and they might be reluctant, since this is a security problem. However, with a good ftp server they can restrict the access to certain machines, i.e. your Macintosh. Using an FTP client for Mac (like Fetch, which is for free or shareware) you can exchange data with the server. This solution is reasonably cheap, since there are free or shareware FTP servers available and you are using only the TCP/IP protocol which is active on virtually any network. If you want to transfer data from the Mac to the PC, working on a PC, you can install an FTP server on the Mac (possibly it is already there: the freeware NCSA Telnet includes a simple FTP server) and get the data on a PC using a FTP client like WinFTP or even your Web broswer typing: "ftp://IP address of the Mac" . (in both cases you need to know the IP address of the serving computer) This solution costs you nothing, but is not very comfortable. Your server uses NT4.0 or Novell: Try to convince your IT people (I know it is hard) to activate services for Macintosh. This would be the easiest solution, the server shows up in the Chooser. This solution is free, since the services are included in the server software. Again your server is Novell based: Get the Novell client for Mac. Once there existed a freeware version from Novell with limited capability perhaps you can find it again. Otherwise, check http://www.prosofteng.com/index.php?prod&netware&cbrief for a commercial version. Using the client nothing has to be changed on the server side. As others mentioned already: Use dedicated software like DAVE or PC MacLan.This is probably the most comfortable way, but also the most expensive one. Finally a solution I prefer, but is rarely mentioned when it comes to Mac PC exchange: Get VirtualPC or Softwindows. This emulates a PC on your Mac and any service available for the PC is now available on the Mac. Compared to DAVE und PC MacLan this solution is finally cheaper: 1. Most likely your institution has special rates for the Windows OS, thus you only need the DOS version of VirtualPC (around $100) and get a Windows license from your IT people.(It is hard to believe, but it installs like on a normal PC) 2. All future problems with Windows connectivity or software (e.g. WinMDI;-) are solved. 3. If you want to use it privately, older versions of VirtualPC are available at ebay for little money. I use version 2 quite successfully for file transfers (on MacOS9.1)(Current version is 5! which runs also under OS X) I hope there is some help in one of these solutions. If you need any further help to these topics (except DAVE and PC MacLan, which I only know by name) do not hesitate to contact me. yours Ulrich Beutner -- ================================================ Ulrich Beutner, Ph.D. Chirurgische Universitaetsklinik Abt.: Exp. Transplantationsimmunologie (ETI) (University Hospital, Department of Surgery Unit for Experimental Transplantation Immunology) Josef-Schneider-Str. 2 97080 Wuerzburg Germany beutner@chirurgie.uni-wuerzburg.de Tel. ++49 931 201-31 553 FAX: ++49 931 201-31 448 =================================================
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