Hello, In Macs using operating systems before the OS X era (i.e. OS 8..., OS 9...) thesee are the main options. - Windows computers (in general) can be accessed from any Mac where "Dave" is installed. I tried a demo version and I was quite impressed to see windows workgroups suddenly appear on my Mac. Check out www.thursby.com. - If your server runs Novell Netware: for years we ran an Appletalk component which is commonly implemented in the Novell Netware software: Novell volumes on the PC server appeared like any other Mac volume in the old Chooser or (better) the Network Browser of your Mac station. - Linux servers: at this time our IT people switched from Novell to Linux server. In Linux, a module called Net-A-Talk was installed, giving the same functionality as above: you see Linux shares as regular Appletalk volumes on your Mac desktop. Net-a-talk, like most Linux stuff is open source software and costs you nada (actually the whole Linux server setup cost virtually nothing in software licenses); see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk And also: http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/ Be sure to have your IT people configure this thing as thorougly as possible (there are many parameters). - If the server is Windows NT or 2000: Macintosh Services for NT seems the most straightforward option, but we never tried it. - Of course by far the simplest solution is to use one Mac as a backup machine for your data and to set up a straightforward Appletalk peer-to-peer network. The difficulty in setting up and maintaining such network is what I'd call "Fisher Price" level. Ideally this Mac should be a simple machine without a lot of bells and whistles: just a big hard drive, an Ethernet port and preferably a CD burner. In my opinion, in the long run having such an extra machine could turn out to be cheaper and more productive than using up IT specialist time for maintaining an emulation of a Mac server on their network. What you could do then is drag-and drop freshly acquired data from your Macs attached to the FACS onto the Backup Mac. Once there you could do off-line analysis of the data and regularly burn an archive CD-ROM. Feel free to can contact me if you need some help on that matter. - Finally, if ever Cellquest for Mac OS X is released (?), the next generation of "FACS-Macs" will run entirely under OS X which simplifies greatly interconnection to Windows machines (via SAMBA) or UNIX servers (directly via NFS). Hope this helps Karim -- Karim Y. Vermaelen, MD Dept. of Respiratory Diseases Ghent University Hospital 7K12ie De Pintelaan 185 Ghent B-9000 Belgium tel: +32 9 240 2605 fax: +32 9 240 2625 On 17/5/2002 23:22, "qli@sbmflab.org" <qli@sbmflab.org> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > Information included in this email may be CONFIDENTIAL in nature and is > intended only > for the use of the individuals to which it is originally addressed. Any > unauthorized > review, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. Please notify South > Bend > Medical Foundation at info@sbmflab.org or 574-234-4176 x6307 immediately if > you have > received this email in error.
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