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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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