ShareWay IP Professional Edition
User's Guide

Getting Started

System Requirements

• Power PC on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.
  
  
• System 7.6.1 or later on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.*
  
  
• Open Transport 1.1.2 or later on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.*
  
  
• AppleShare Client 3.7 or later needed on client machines.
  
  
• A TCP/IP network, or Internet connectivity, between the ShareWay IP and client machines. ShareWay IP's TCP/IP connection must be over Ethernet, any AppleTalk network supporting TCP/IP using MacIP, or TCP over dial-up using PPP.
  
  
• ShareWay IP Pro requires 1262 KB of RAM with Virtual Memory on, and 1900 KB with Virtual Memory off.
  
  
• An AppleTalk network between the server and ShareWay IP machines, if the server and ShareWay IP are on different machines.
  
  
• Any AFP 2.1 or later server (includes Mac OS personal file sharing, AppleShare 3 or 4, Macintosh Services for Windows NT Server, etc.)
  

* To use ShareWay IP's "multihoming" mode of multiple server support (see IP Addresses in Basics), Open Transport 1.3 or later is required. Open Transport 1.3 is shipped with Mac OS 8.1.

 

Preinstallation

If you are not running Mac OS 8.1 on the ShareWay IP machine, you can skip this paragraph. If you are running Mac OS 8.1, you may wish to create additional IP addresses for ShareWay IP to use to represent the servers it targets. This procedure is fully documented in the Multiple IP Addresses Appendix, but is briefly outlined below.

• Create a text file called "IP Secondary Addresses." See the Multiple IP Addresses Appendix for file format details, or see sample file "IP Secondary Addresses."
• Drag the file into the Preferences folder in the system folder of the ShareWay IP Macintosh.
• Restart the Macintosh.

Figure 1 below shows the general installation configuration of ShareWay IP Pro. Note that:

• ShareWay IP can be on the same Macintosh as one of the servers it's supporting. If only one AFP server is targeted, and that server is on the same machine as ShareWay IP, that machine need not be connected to an AppleTalk network, only to a TCP/IP network.
  
  
• The more general case is where one or more AFP servers are not on the same machine as ShareWay IP. The servers and ShareWay IP machines must either be on the same AppleTalk network, or interconnected AppleTalk networks. In addition, the ShareWay IP machine must also be on a TCP/IP network.

Figure 1. ShareWay IP Professional Installation Configuration

Note that the AFP Engage! URL Processor is optional, but provides a convenient, powerful method of accessing AFP servers. See Methods of Accessing Target Servers in Using ShareWay IP.

Installation

Once you have decided which Macintosh to install ShareWay IP Gateway on, install it by simply dragging it to the hard drive of that Macintosh.

Quick Start

To use ShareWay IP Professional, you need to:

• specify one or more target servers
• start the gateway

Before proceeding, you should confirm that:

• The AFP servers and ShareWay IP machines' AppleTalk is active and configured for the correct network.
• The ShareWay IP machine's TCP/IP is active and configured for the correct network.
• The AFP servers are running.
• The client machines' TCP/IP is active and configured.

Begin setup by launching the ShareWay IP application. The Gateway Status window appears as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Gateway Status window

To specify a target server, click the "Target Servers" button, then in the "Target Servers" dialog click "Add...". The "Add Target Server" dialog appears as shown below in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Add Target Server Dialog

Specify whether the desired server is on the same Macintosh as ShareWay IP, or on AppleTalk. If it's on AppleTalk, click the "Choose..." button. A window appears as shown below in Figure 4. If zones appear in the list on the left, select a zone. Then select a server from the list on the right and click "OK", or double-click a server.

Figure 4. Selecting a Server on an AppleTalk Network

If you selected the server on the same Macintosh as ShareWay IP, click the Next button to get to the "IP Address" dialog. If you selected a server on another machine, you will automatically be in the "IP Address" dialog. The dialog appears in one of two forms. If you are running OS 8.1 and have implemented multiple IP addresses, the IP Address dialog appears as shown below in Figure 6. Otherwise, it appears as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. IP Address Dialog

If this form of the dialog appears, just enter a port number (enter nothing to use the default of 548), and click Done. If multiple IP addresses are not available, each server supported by ShareWay IP Pro must be assigned a unique port number. Server connections are enabled by default. See Target Server IP Address Dialog in the Using ShareWay IP chapter.

Figure 6. IP Address Dialog With Multiple IP Addresses Implemented

If the dialog appears as in Figure 6, choose an IP address (and specify a port number if you wish) and click Done. Each server supported by ShareWay IP Pro must be assigned a unique IP address/port number combination. Server connections are enabled by default. See Target Server IP Address Dialog in the Using ShareWay IP chapter.

Reselect the Gateway window and click Start to start the gateway. Target servers will not be accessible until the gateway is started.

Accessing Targeted Servers

The most straightforward method of connecting to Gateway-targeted servers is through the Chooser. On any client Macintosh, select the Chooser from the Apple menu, and select the AppleShare icon. Click on the "Server IP Address..." button, and enter one of the IP addresses (and port number if the port number is not the default value) assigned through ShareWay IP. Note that this is an IP address assigned through ShareWay IP, not the IP address of the targeted AFP server. When you click on the "Connect" button, ShareWay IP's targeted server will be accessed and the standard AppleShare login process will begin.

Other methods of connecting to Gateway-targeted servers are covered in Methods of Accessing Target Servers.

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