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boxercom - Nov 4, 2005 - 4:03 pm

Tight on space. My 4 Mac home network has a G5 dual core 2.3ghz, a G4 tower 500mhz, a blue G3 tower 450mhz and last but definately not least a beige G3 tower 233mhz, which I need to print serial to a large format Epson 3000.

Each with their own keyboard, mouse and monitor.
I would like to get rid of the 'ol G3 - I tried a USB to serial adapter, connecting the newer macs to the epson - it did not work. Any idea why?

I would consider using a KVM to share a monitor and mouse with the old G3 and a newer mac, but it would seem I must choose between a USB or ADB when choosing a KVM.
Is there one with both or a better solution?

Wayne

edadams - Nov 4, 2005 - 8:15 pm

Jim

Have you considered running a VNC server on the older G3 hardware that has ADB, you can control them from your newer machines which will share a KVM?

You can download a OS9 version here-
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html#OS9vnc

regards
Ed

boxercom - Nov 7, 2005 - 7:18 pm

A little finicky and more than a tad slow, but it works!

Thanks