I have a friend with a Pentium 3 and he needs to back up his data. He
doesn't have a CD burner and doesn't want to buy one either. I have a
CD burner on my G3 and I was going to try and back up his data for
him. Is there anyway to transfer the data with an Ethernet cable? I
don't know if this is a stupid question but it would be really nice if
I could just plug his pentium 3 into my G3 and simply transfer the
data over. Neither one of us has a router so I can't network them that
way. Any suggestions?

I have an external Zip drive and it looks like thats the only way I'll
be able to transfer the stuff. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun to
transfer everything in 100MB chunks.

In article <c37b02c2.0404230557.2e0fcdd9@posting.google.com >,
dreadbiscuit******.com (dreadbisuit) wrote:

> I have a friend with a Pentium 3 and he needs to back up his data. He
> doesn't have a CD burner and doesn't want to buy one either. I have a
> CD burner on my G3 and I was going to try and back up his data for
> him. Is there anyway to transfer the data with an Ethernet cable? I
> don't know if this is a stupid question but it would be really nice if
> I could just plug his pentium 3 into my G3 and simply transfer the
> data over. Neither one of us has a router so I can't network them that
> way. Any suggestions?
>
> I have an external Zip drive and it looks like thats the only way I'll
> be able to transfer the stuff. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun to
> transfer everything in 100MB chunks.

Depends on what OS you're running on your G3...

If you're running OS-X, then a simple crossover cable between the two
machines, set the TCP/IP to manual and set the IP's the same subnet and
you should be in business.

If you're running OS9 or 8, and you don't have PCMacLan or Dave, then
it'll be the zip drive...

dreadbiscuit******.com (dreadbisuit) wrote in message news:<c37b02c2.0404230557.2e0fcdd9@posting.google. com>...
> I have a friend with a Pentium 3 and he needs to back up his data. He
> doesn't have a CD burner and doesn't want to buy one either. I have a
> CD burner on my G3 and I was going to try and back up his data for
> him. Is there anyway to transfer the data with an Ethernet cable? I
> don't know if this is a stupid question but it would be really nice if
> I could just plug his pentium 3 into my G3 and simply transfer the
> data over. Neither one of us has a router so I can't network them that
> way. Any suggestions?
>
> I have an external Zip drive and it looks like thats the only way I'll
> be able to transfer the stuff. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun to
> transfer everything in 100MB chunks.

(1) You will need a crossover cable to connect the machines if you
don't have a hub or switch.
(2) If you enable Windows file sharing on your machine then with
the proper magic on his box (not
real good at Windows) his machine will be able to see your
disk drive. Then he can copy his stuff
over and you can burn it.

He should be able to read your CD's. Also when you copy the files you
might also use the option if you have 10.3 of Archiving them which
ZIP's them and the PC can easily handle ZIP files.

--jim