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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> If anyone has experience sharing IRIX drives with a Mac or vice-versa
> across a network, could you tell me how you did it ?
> 
> I currently intend to try the 'Columbia AppleTalk Package' but are
> very willing to listen to advice !
> 
> Simon.
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We have 4 SGIs networked with a dozen or more Macs and a couple of NT
servers. Xinet produce a bit of software called K-Talk which is an
AppleTalk stack for SGI. It works great and there is a time limited demo
version which we have running on three individual SGIs. The limit is 60
minutes at a time (which is enough for our needs and we very rarely use
it). We do however have a server running a 16 user version of the
software that we do use and are getting up to the point of 16
consecutive users doing intensive graphics/repro work. It supports
AppleShare IP as well for extra speed. We use some IRIX graphic software
that relies heavily on exchanging files with Mac and they adopted K-Talk
a couple of years ago and have developed their software around it. We
used to use NFS Share which was absolute crap - crashed constantly.

If you're looking for a cheap solution track down a demo version and see
what it's like. They may do it as just K-Talk. Our licensed version is
part of an OPI solution called FullPress which provides printer sharing
and image replacement as well. They have a site at www.xinet.com

Andy Sheppard mentioned Samba. We also use/have used Samba and it is
also an excellent bit of software if it does indeed work with DAVE.