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a little help from my friends
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:03 pm
by kagenogundan84
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
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:16 am
by Shin Jaon
Via internet?
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:57 pm
by kagenogundan84
yes...is there any other way to do it?
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:50 pm
by Idioteque
LAN PARTY!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:09 am
by Shin Jaon
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:53 pm
by kagenogundan84
im not to good with computer and networking but we live in the same house...does that make it easier?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:17 pm
by Shin Jaon
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
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:02 pm
by kagenogundan84
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?
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:35 am
by nephtu
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:23 am
by UserUnfriendly
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...
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:33 am
by nephtu
Doh!
Forgot about the twisted pair bit
Thanks for the clarification.