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From: ajauch@paris.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Token Ring Troubles
Message-ID: <25BC9C6F.27092@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 90 18:03:27 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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Sorry if this is a re-post!

This is a semi-follow-up to a previous article "Wierd Network Problem."

I have a PC-Lan from IBM in my office running over Token Ring.  I have recently
purchased a Mac IIcx and *love it*.  However, the Token Ring card from Apple
is not quite as I expected.  I was hoping to achive full access to my current
network through my Mac.  The card and included software do operate as designed
but not the way in which I had hoped.

The way the SMB software is written, you can only access volumes through the
apple file exchange utility (which I got for free from Apple with the Mac).
However, this is not really what I wanted to do.  I would like to allow my
Mac, running SoftPC (which I have) to run network programs such as WP Office
(which I also have for the IBM side).

I need a hack or a product that will allow me to do one of the following:

1.  Allow my Mac to mount PC-Lan volumes like they where AppleTalk volumes.
    I also need printer service so that is a requirement as well.  Apple's
    program does not allow this as far as I can tell.

2.  Run a *full* PC emulation.  This includes cards.  SoftPC is great but will
    not address my Token Ring card.

I can't believe that if Apple can get me into the volumes and SoftPC can run
the programs, that there is not way to do both of these at the same time.

I have heard a rumor that a couple of colleges back east have been using 
Token Ring on their Macs.  Can someone from one of these schools get a line
to me and tell me your setup?

Thanks for all your help in advance.

Alex Jauch
Administrative Computing (AdCom)
University of California, Irvine
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu