Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (john gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: PC access to Appleshare server
Message-ID: <1029@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 15:04:02 GMT
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (john gerard)
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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We need access from a PC to an existing AppleShare file server on EtherTalk.
I know everything would be lovely if we were using TOPS, but I believe that
TOPS is not AppleShare-compatible. Is there any suitable software?
The nice thing would be to leave the PC connected onto Ethernet, possibly
with a different Ethernet card to the one that it has now. Less nice would
be to equip it with a LocalTalk card and make a LocalTalk with it and a
Kinetics box (a bit expensive!).

Softwarewise, I guess that some file conversion programs would be sometimes
necessary, though I am told that Excel and Word are OK.

I do know that we could change the AppleShare server to be Novell, but
that would be a bit costly also.

Products available now? or RSN?

Mike Gerard
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