February 10th Meeting Highlights
By Kathy Holton
User Group Meeting Saturday, February 10, 2001
At the last minute we had a request for a demonstration on FTP (file transfer protocol)
applications and how to use them. Michael had a great idea to set up an FTP server
and have another computer there with an FTP client to connect to. I thought this
was a great idea until, DJ (my son) told me at 8:30 am Saturday morning, “Oh Yeah,
the Duke’s might not be able to come to the meeting.” So I scrambled to download
an FTP Server I had no idea how to work, I found one called PageSentry 3.0, and installed
it. I also, turned on the FTP Server on OS X, thinking, maybe this would work. After
I got that working and was able to FTP a file from my PowerBook to the G3 I called
Keith to make sure he brought his iBook. Surprise, surprise, he was not coming. Keith
was going skiing with his daughter. Now I’m in real trouble. I have a Server and
no computer to connect. Gene Nowlan to the rescue, he agreed to bring his PowerBook.
When we arrived at Bethany, Lesley had made a pot of Chile, Thanks Lesley; everyone
enjoyed the hot meal along with whatever lunch they brought. Don and Jon especially
enjoyed the Chile. While we ate we talked about my scrambling to get what I needed
for the meeting, and the tax problems that have been in the paper concerning the
new housing at Bethany. A short time after we started eating Jon and Michael Duke
showed up with a whole network.
Michael starting setting up our network, with all the stuff brought by, the Dukes,
the Holtons and Gene Nowlan, we had 2 hubs, 2 iBooks, 2 PowerBooks, 3 or 4 power
strips and miscellaneous cabling. We had more than enough equipment for a small network.
The iBooks and Gene’s PowerBook connected flawlessly and Gene was off and downloading
from the server before I knew it. My PowerBook however, did not connect right away.
Actually it never did get it to connect. I tried all during the meeting and we just
couldn’t figure it out, until I read the hub, it was a 100BASE-T hub and my PowerBook
is 10BASE-T, so they just were not compatible. Thankfully nothing was wrong with
the PowerBook.
We talked briefly about iDisk and the benefits of using that instead of FTP. iDisk
is provided by Apple, free of charge. They give OS9 users 20MB of Internet storage
space and uses Apple’s File sharing which is much more “user friendly” than using
FTP.
I hope everyone enjoyed the meeting. I certainly learned a few things. Thank you
to Michael and Gene.
At the end of the meeting we decided on the next meeting date. It will be Saturday,
March 10, 2001 @ 12:00 pm, Bethany. See you in March, and bring your lunch.
Kathy Holton
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