a little help from my friends

kagenogundan84 · Post by **kagenogundan84** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:03 pm

hey i have a ibm and a friend has a macintosh...we are having a hard time figuring out how we can play together. is it possible? or are we wasting our time? please either post you reply or email me at flintfireforge84@yahoo.com or AIM me at KageNoGundan84

thanx for the help
Ian

Shin Jaon · Post by **Shin Jaon** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:16 am

Via internet?

kagenogundan84 · Post by **kagenogundan84** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:57 pm

yes...is there any other way to do it?

Idioteque · Post by **Idioteque** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:50 pm

LAN PARTY!!!

Shin Jaon · Post by **Shin Jaon** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:09 am

Originally posted by Idioteque
LAN PARTY!!!

, I couldn't tell you really. It may be possible but I doubt it. Try, and may the shwartz be with you!

kagenogundan84 · Post by **kagenogundan84** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:53 pm

im not to good with computer and networking but we live in the same house...does that make it easier?

Shin Jaon · Post by **Shin Jaon** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:17 pm

You should hook up by network, it will make things much smoother, as for internet I would suggest trying. It's always worth a shot, and if it doesn't work, report back

kagenogundan84 · Post by **kagenogundan84** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:02 pm

the macintosh doesnt go to gamezone of what ever its called the the ibm goes to their system is called game ranger....how would one do it over a network?

nephtu · Post by **nephtu** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:35 am

Online hookup

Well, assuming both machines have ethernet ports (the one that looks rather like a fat telephone jack) you can hook the two machines up with any old cheap-o router, or even just cable direct. With any luck, the two should recognize each other.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:23 am

by cable direct, i suspect you mean just hooking up a twist pair cable between them....

you actually need a uplink cable, which has the pins reversed...

a straight thru twist pair would not work...

and unless you know exactly what you are doing, playing around with a rounter is simply not easy...i assume you're thinking about using a router to translate appletalk-over-ip into straight ip...

easier to do it with just a cheap old hub, or possibly a null modem cable...of course if you use a null modem cable, running point to point protocol simply does not avoid the fact that its rather hard to run standard ip machines in a appletalk network and vice versa...

i'd offer some advice, but frankly appletalk protocols are simply something I know very little about...

ideally, the easiest way is to run standard ip protocol stacks on the mac, and configure with a static...let arp tell you about the other ip machines on the wire...

this could have some unintentional effects on the dialup modem on either or both machines...

running winipcfg will tell you the network numbers and subnets of the modem, and it might be possible to simply wire the two machines together and let arp tell you about the neighbor...

gosh...i hope you're not running 98 or me...nt, 2000,xp allows you to setup the nic and modem with different ip addresses, networks and subnets, but the protocol stack on 98, me are...simpler...

this could get nasty...

nephtu · Post by **nephtu** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:33 am

Doh!

Forgot about the twisted pair bit

Thanks for the clarification.