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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ldp!rolfe
- From: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
- Subject: Re: Can a Mac network use NeXT Cube as a server?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224214.10508@ldp.com>
- Sender: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
- Reply-To: rolfe@ldp.com
- Organization: Lucky Duck Productions
- References: <1992Dec18.144817.20032@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:42:14 GMT
- Lines: 51
-
- In article <1992Dec18.144817.20032@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes:
- > In article <1gqfoqINN8i0@network.ucsd.edu> asp@chem.ucsd.edu (Alexander S.
- > Polinsky) writes:
- > >
- > > I would like to ask you if the following is possible with NeXTstep 3.0:
- > > 1. Can NeXT be connected to a network of Macs?
- > > 2. Can NeXT printer that I have now be used as a network printer
- > > for the Macs?
- > > 3. If we buy a large disk drive and connect it to the NeXT, can
- > > the NeXT be used as a file server for the Mac network?
- >
- > The answer could be yes if someone has ported CAP (Columbia AppleTalk
- Protocol)
- > to the NeXT. I have used this quite successfully with a Sun. It gives you
- an
- > appletalk file/printer server off of unix and the unix box gets to use the
- > appletalk printers (of course you don't really need this last feature with
- NS
- > 3.0). CAP is freeware and can be found at rutgers.edu. I have cross
- posted
- > this the comp.protocols.appletalk, where CAP is discussed, in hopes someone
- > there knows the answer.
- >
- > If this doesn't work, you might want to consider buying a single Sun to be
- your
- > CAP server and use NIS/NFS/LPR to integrate it into the Nexts.
- >
-
- I'm doing most of this with a NeXTStation under 2.1; I don't know about 3.0.
- (People have been complaining about various things breaking under 3.0, but I
- don't have any personal experience.)
-
- You should be aware that the NeXT does not support native ethernet; there
- must be a Gatorbox or Fastpath on your network to do IPTalk. There is
- support in CAP for Suns to do native ethernet, I believe.
-
- I am running the fileserver stuff and accessing the NeXT disk from the Mac
- side. I'm also printing from the NeXT to our printers on LocalTalk.
-
- All this works very well, and I haven't noticed any bugs (I'm at patchlevel
- 100).
-
- Rolfe
-
-
-
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