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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew
- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: NeXT as Mac server?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.003916.8811@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com> <1992Aug14.151242.6333@ldp.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:39:16 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug14.151242.6333@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com writes:
- >In article <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew
- >Loewenstern) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug12.140612.10627@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com writes:
- >(Original question about NeXT serving Macs delted)
- >
- >> >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.
- >>
- >
- >Yes, I realize that, but my point was that NeXT has obviously put Appletalk
- >support in the kernel in order to support the Appleshare client stuff that
- >ships with 3.0. With that in place, I would think the CAP maintainers could
- >come up with the patches to support Ethertalk. Currently this support only
- >exists for Suns and DecStations, although CAP runs on a whole slew of
- >hardware.
-
- 3.0 does run ethertalk, but there is no server support or API to
- AppleTalk. It would be way better to port the entire CAP package and
- not run the 3.0 client than to try and hot-wire portions af CAP in
- without stepping on the toes of the NeXT AT client.
-
-
- andrew
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- Andrew Loewenstern | And the end of our exploring
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- | And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
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