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- Path: 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
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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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