I don’t have a lot of networking experience. I am faced with having to setup one and possibly two MAC’s running OS 8.6 and currently three PC’s, soon to be four, running different flavours of Win9x. Down the road, there may also be a PC running Linux wanting to be hooked up.
The purpose of hooking all these together is two fold. First, to share a single Cable Modem internet connection. Second to facilitate sharing peripherals, currently attached to each of these units. These currently include a scanner, a laser printer, a couple of ink jet printers, a SCSI standalone harddrive currently run off one of the MACs.
How do I do this without becoming a networking expert or going to Netware or NT or whatever? Ease of setup and maintenanceas well as keeping costs down are primary considertions here. Is there a single “out of the box solution” or is it a patchwork of “fixes” that’s called for?
