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From: rich@cfi.COM (rich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: NCSA Telnet questions
Keywords: telnet
Message-ID: <793@thebeach.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 18:26:17 GMT
Reply-To: rich@cfi.COM ()
Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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I want to use NCSA Telnet on our Mac/Sun Ethernet network, and have an
elementary question or two.  As I understand it, I should be able to use Telnet
to create a remote login session on any of the Suns on our network.  (We are
currently using a serial port connection and White Knight.)  The Macs have
3-Com Etherlink/NB cards, and use Liaison as the Ethertalk/Appletalk bridge to
print on our QMS printer.  They are also using TOPS to access each other's
files.

What is the IP number I use for the Mac?  I know the IP numbers for our 15
Suns, but are the Macs supposed to have one?  Can it be arbitrarily assigned?
I tried checking the "Assign Dynamically" button, but nothing happened (it
timed out).  Are we lacking some daemon on the Suns?  (There are 2 rarpd
daemons running on the two servers we have.)  Is the "Default Host:" name the
name of the Sun machine where they will be logged into?

As you can probably tell, I do not have a thorough understanding of TCP/IP,
domains, nameservers, etc.  I would appreciate a "minimum guide" of steps to
set this up, assuming much Sun/Unix experience but less networking & Mac
experience.

Thanks very much.
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Rich Baughman		  rich@cfi.com OR ima!cfisun!rich
Price Waterhouse          Waltham, MA  617-899-6500