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- From: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
- Subject: Re: Can a Mac network use NeXT Cube as a server?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.144817.20032@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Keywords: NeXT, CAP
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- Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
- References: <1gqfoqINN8i0@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:48:17 GMT
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- 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.
-
-
- > Alex Polinsky
- > UCSD
- > (619)455-3200
-
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