Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!wcc!tom From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) Newsgroups: aus.mac,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Remote access to LocalTalk -- Advice wanted Keywords: NetModem, MacTCP/IP, Timbuktu Message-ID: <682@wcc.oz> Date: 23 Mar 90 08:21:44 GMT References: <594@usage.csd.unsw.oz> Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 60 In article <594@usage.csd.unsw.oz>, robt@mummy.unsw.oz (Rob_Trevor) writes: > > I would like to be able to dial up my office network from home in order to: > > * telnet into various machines on the campus network (say with NCSA > Telnet, or using the MacTCP/IP drivers etc) You could just log in with MacTerminal or Kermit, but I assume you want simultaneous multiple Telnet login sessions and concurrent AppleTalk services. Running a terminal session inside TCP/IP inside AppleTalk inside an async protocol burns bandwidth though. > * remotely start up numerical/time intensive programs on my office Mac > (say with Timbuktu) > > ... > Once I can get the LocalTalk connection > I'm right because it goes through a Webster box (running KIP) onto the campus > ethernet. Funny you should ask. On the multigate@munnari newsletter the following has just been posted: > From: djh@murtoa.cs.mu.oz > > I am pleased to announce the release of the following Multigate software. > You can obtain these files via anonymous ftp (use BINARY mode) or ACSnet > fetchfile from munnari.OZ.AU > > ... (various files and then) > > Async AppleTalk for UNIX/CAP v 1.2 (multigate/async.atalk.1.2.shar.Z) > This package allows remote access to AppleTalk Networks via UNIX > host serial lines. Use AppleShare servers and Printers from home! Many Universities have racks of modems and dial-in lines already connected to machines. What better than to use existing dial-in hardware to connect your Mac to a Unix host, and then have some magic occur that connects you directly to your campus AppleTalk network? This is what Async AppleTalk is all about. You connect to your Unix machine the usual way and run the "async" program. This has a private pathway into the MultiGate which acts as your router. You (and other Macs logged in) appear to the network to be on a separate AppleTalk network (with your own network number and zone if you wish). You can run applications (5 minutes to launch Disinfectant at 9600 baud), mail, print, get files etc. Currently this setup won't let you run NCSA as you can't get an IP address allocated down the async line. Maybe later. Async AppleTalk requires the CAP libraries to be present on the Unix host. --------- Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au | Webster Computer Corp P/L | "The concept of my 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd | existence is an Scoresby VIC 3179 | approximation" Australia | 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 | D. Conway