ShareWay IP Gateway User's Guide

Getting Started

System Requirements

• 68030 or better, or a Power PC, on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.
  
  
• Mac OS 7.5.5 or later on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.
  
  Mac OS 8.5 or later if SLP registration is desired.
  
  
• Open Transport 1.1.2 or later on the ShareWay IP Macintosh.
  
  
• AppleShare Client 3.7 or later needed on client machine for AppleShare access over TCP/IP.
  
  
• A TCP/IP network, or Internet connectivity, between the ShareWay IP and client machines. ShareWay IP's TCP/IP connection must be over Ethernet, any AppleTalk network supporting TCP/IP using MacIP, or TCP over dial-up using PPP.
  
  
• 800 KB RAM for the Personal Edition
  
  1 MB RAM for the Standard Edition
  
  
• Standard Edition - An AppleTalk network between the server and ShareWay IP machines, if the server and ShareWay IP are on different machines.
  
  
• Standard Edition - Any AFP 2.1 or later server (includes Mac OS personal file sharing, AppleShare 3 or 4, Macintosh Services for Windows NT Server, etc.)
  

Pre-Installation

ShareWay IP Personal Edition must be installed on the same machine as the personal file sharing server it is supporting, as shown in Figure 1 below. ShareWay IP Standard Edition can be installed in one of two configurations:

• Install ShareWay IP on the same Macintosh as the server. In this case the machine need not be connected to an AppleTalk network, only to a TCP/IP network. See Figure 1 below.

Figure 1. ShareWay IP (Standard or Personal) and server on same machine

• Install ShareWay IP on a different machine than the server. The two machines must be on either the same AppleTalk network or interconnected AppleTalk networks. In addition, the ShareWay IP machine must also be on a TCP/IP network. This three-machine configuration is required for support of non-Macintosh servers, since ShareWay IP cannot be run on the server machine in this case. See Figure 2 below.

Figure 2. ShareWay IP Standard and server on different machines

Note that in both configurations AFP Engage! is optional, but may be used as a convenient, powerful method of accessing AFP servers. See Using ShareWay IP. Note also that any user wishing to access a server targeted by ShareWay IP must have AppleShare Client 3.7 or later installed.

If you wish to take advantage of ShareWay IP's SLP registration functionality, so that the server targeted can be found dynamically through AFP Engage, be sure the ShareWay machine is running Mac OS 8.5 and the SLP plug-in is in the System's Extensions folder.

Installation

• Standard Edition - Once you have decided which Macintosh to install ShareWay IP Gateway on, install it by simply dragging it to the hard drive of that Macintosh.
  
  
• Personal Edition - Drag ShareWay IP Gateway to the hard drive of the personal file sharing machine you wish to make available though the Gateway.
  
  
• Background version - ShareWay IP 2.0 (Standard or Personal) includes two versions of the ShareWay application, a traditional foreground version and a new background-only version, called "ShareWay IP Background" or "ShareWay IP Personal Background". If you wish to use only the foreground version, simply drag that version to the machine which will be running ShareWay. If you wish to use the background version, drag both versions to that machine. The foreground version is used to configure the background version.
  

Setup (Standard Edition)

Before beginning ShareWay IP setup, take the following initial steps:

1. Confirm that the server and ShareWay IP machines' AppleTalk is active and configured for the correct network. Confirm this using the AppleTalk control panel on each machine.
   NOTE: Even if you are running ShareWay IP on the same machine as the server, ShareWay IP requires that AppleTalk be active on that machine. If there is no physical AppleTalk network connected, you can choose any AppleTalk interface, including Remote Only (available if ARA is installed).
2. Confirm that the ShareWay IP machine's TCP/IP is active and configured for the correct network. Confirm this using the TCP/IP control panel on the ShareWay IP machine.
3. Make sure the AFP server is running.
4. Make sure that the client machines' TCP/IP is active and configured.

Begin setup by launching the ShareWay IP application. You will be prompted to enter a serial number. If you do not enter a valid serial number, your copy of ShareWay IP will only run until 10 days from the date you first ran it. To enter a serial number, click "Enter Serial Number...", enter the serial number and click OK. To use ShareWay IP as a temporary eval version, just click OK. See Serial Numbers in the next chapter for details on serial numbers.

The status window appears as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. ShareWay IP Standard status window, ShareWay IP inactive

Note that when ShareWay IP is first launched, it is inactive. Before starting it for the first time, you must specify a target server -- the server with which ShareWay IP will communicate. This is done in the Target Server section. There are two basic choices:

• Server on this Macintosh - This is the default. ShareWay IP will communicate with the AFP server on the same Macintosh as itself. This Macintosh does not have to be connected to an AppleTalk network, but AppleTalk must be active.
  
  
• Server on AppleTalk - ShareWay IP will communicate with an AFP server on the AppleTalk network or an interconnected AppleTalk network. To select a server, click the "Choose..." button. A window appears as shown below in Figure 4. If zones appear in the list on the left, select a zone. Then select a server from the list on the right and click "OK", or double-click a server. The target server must be available on AppleTalk before it will appear in the list.

  

  Figure 4. Selecting a Server on an AppleTalk Network

Note that ShareWay IP Standard Edition can communicate with only one AFP server at a time. When you have selected a target server, you can start ShareWay IP by clicking the "Start" button. The server will not be accessible over TCP/IP until ShareWay IP has been started, and will be made inaccessible again by clicking the "Stop" button, quitting ShareWay IP, or shutting down the Macintosh where ShareWay IP is installed. ShareWay IP's status (active or inactive) is saved between sessions.

Setup (Personal Edition)

Before beginning ShareWay IP setup, take the following initial steps:

1. Confirm that the ShareWay IP machine's AppleTalk is active and configured for the correct network. Confirm this using the AppleTalk control panel.
   NOTE: If there is no physical AppleTalk network connected, you can choose any AppleTalk interface, including Remote Only (available if ARA is installed).
2. Confirm that the ShareWay IP machine's TCP/IP is active and configured for the correct network. Confirm this using the TCP/IP control panel.
3. Make sure personal file sharing is running.

Begin setup by launching the ShareWay IP application. You will be prompted to enter a serial number. If you do not enter a valid serial number, your copy of ShareWay IP will only run until 10 days from the date you first ran it. To enter a serial number, click "Enter Serial Number...", enter the serial number and click OK. To use ShareWay IP as a temporary eval version, just click OK. See Serial Numbers in the next chapter for details on serial numbers.

The status window appears as shown in Figure 5 below. Start ShareWay IP by clicking the "Start" button. The server will not be accessible over TCP/IP until ShareWay IP has been started, and will be made inaccessible again by clicking the "Stop" button, quitting ShareWay IP, or shutting down the Macintosh where ShareWay IP is installed. ShareWay IP's status (active or inactive) is saved between sessions.

Figure 5. ShareWay IP Personal status window, ShareWay IP inactive

Setup (Background -- Personal and Standard Editions)

Setup of the background version is done though the foreground version. Setup details are described in the two sections above and in Serial Numbers in the next chapter. Once ShareWay has been configured, quit the foreground version and launch the background version. The background version will automatically start the Gateway whenever it is run, even if the Gateway was inactive when the foreground version was quit.

Starting ShareWay IP At Boot Time

To have ShareWay IP start automatically at boot time, put an alias to ShareWay IP (either the foreground or background version, as desired) in the Startup Items folder. The Gateway will launch in the same state it was in when it was last quit or when the machine was last shut down. The Gateway's state includes the choice of target server, whether logging is on or off, and whether the Gateway is active or not (in the case of the foreground version).

Note: both personal file sharing and AppleShare can take a few minutes to start up at boot time. It will thus take a few minutes after restarting for these servers to become available through ShareWay IP if they are on the same machine as ShareWay IP.

Accessing the Targeted Server

The easiest way to access target servers is through Open Door's AFP Engage! 2.0. On the client machine, launch AFP Engage! 2.0, choose "Browse AFP Servers..." from the File menu, and double-click a server in the list. This method requires that both the client and ShareWay machines are on the same intranet and are running Mac OS 8.5. A single-user license to AFP Engage! 2.0 is included with ShareWay IP 2.0.

Other methods of connecting to Gateway-targeted servers are covered in Using ShareWay IP.

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