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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PublicFolder Breaks AppleTalk Stuff
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Date: 31 Oct 89 20:42:53 GMT
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In article <47568@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>I too had trouble which was eliminated by removing Responder.

  My last reply got botched, so here goes again.  I run Responder, Broadcast,
Public Folder, Dumper, and NCSA Telnet regularly on a group of Macs, with
NO (repeat, NO) problems.  I run AppleShare client (to an aufs server)
occasionally on them (as well as Tops on one), and have never had any
problems with them (including printing).  I suggest you check to see
if you have the latest versions.

>
>Could someone tell me just what it does?  (I know, it published your
>Mac's identity to the network, or some such.  What I want to know, is
>what does THAT get you?)
>

  Interpoll (Apple's network monitoring package) can query a Mac to find
out it's current version of the System, Finder, and LaserWriter, and it
need Responder to report back this information.

						Jeff White
						University of Pennsylvania
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu