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Our department has finally decided to supply its graduate students a UNIX <->
Mac gateway. I'm one of the people who is to decided what we purchase. I've
read all of the relavent articles in comp.sys.mac and comp.protocols.appletalk
but still have a few general questions. I would *really* appreciate it if
those of you out there who are exprienced in this area would drop me a line.
I'm not an expert in networking (or anything else for that matter -)), so
please forgive any "simple" questions.

Here is what we want to do.

1). Allow both Macs and Suns to print to a LaserWriter connected to a Sun
workstation acting as a spooler (with accounting).

2). To allow the Suns to act as AppleShare fileservers.

3). Allow remote access of Suns from Macs (e.g. NCSA Telnet).

4). Allow UNIX <-> Mac mail (at some time in the future).

From what I've gathered there are a few options in implementing this. 

1). A FastPath with uShare or CAP.
2). A GatorBox with GatorShare and GatorPrint, uShare, or CAP.

We had originally planned on a GatorBox but since Cayman unbundled their
software, it seems to be the most expensive solution (~$1800CAN for GatorShare
and ~$500CAN for GatorPrint). 

In general, my question is: What is the best HW & SW solution to meet our
needs?
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Brad Hedstrom, University of Victoria, ECE Dept.
Internet:  hedstrom@sirius.uvic.ca
UUCP:   ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!hedstrom
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_____________________________________________________________________________
Brad Hedstrom, University of Victoria, ECE Dept.
Internet:  hedstrom@sirius.uvic.ca
UUCP:   ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!hedstrom