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Article #721Re: NeXT as Mac server?
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:11
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:11
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In article <1992Aug12.140612.10627@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com writes:
>In article <ward1.713544494@husc8> ward1@husc8.harvard.edu (Lester Ward)
>writes:
>> We have a single NeXTstation that we'd like to turn into a file-server
>> for our programmers. The five Mac ci's they work on are all ethernet
>> compatible and have their own IP numbers.
>>
>> Does anyone know what is involved in setting this up?
>>
>> Les
>
>You can install CAP, although currently it requires an Ethernet/Localtalk
>router like a Fastpath or Gatorbox. I don't know whether 3.0's support for
>Appletalk in the kernel will change this, but I would think it should. Other
>than that glitch, CAP works great and is fairly mature at this point.
No, 3.0 only lets you become an AppleShare _client_ and not a
sever. You'll need something like uShare to get the Macs talking
TCP/IP and NFS to let the NeXT be a server.
andrew
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: NeXT as Mac server? Message-ID: <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <ward1.713544494@husc8> <1992Aug12.140612.10627@ldp.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:11:27 GMT Lines: 27