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From: wcc@cup.portal.com (wcc - usa)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Internet AppleShare File Server Access?
Message-ID: <32632@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 23:23:31 GMT
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Russell Mosemann (mosemann@hoss.unl.edu) writes:

>  Is it possible to access an AppleShare File Server across the Internet?
> For example, if two (spatially distant) LocalTalk networks are connected
> by FastPaths to local Ethernets which, in turn, are connected to Internet,
> is there a way that each other's zones can be seen and the file servers
> accessed?

Yes this is very workable. You need the following:

  1  Both kboxen with their "UDP Side" config set to something reasonable,
  2  The "AppleTalk Administrative Daemon" (atalkad" running somewhere,
  3  Both kboxen's "administrator" config pointing to this "somewhere",
  4  Proper entries in the "atalkatab" file describing the conection.

Now where's the documentation? Hmmm. I suggest you fetch a copy of
atalkad from somewhere and also a copy of the KIP sources which fully
documents the protocols used (in the source code :-) - seriously the
docs included do tell you things you need to know.

I'd recommend the copy of atalkad in the "multigate" directory on
"munnari.oz.au". Most of the documentation is at the top of the
"atalkatab" file - there's 8 pages of it describing what's going on.
I know because I rewrote/edited most of it.


Tom Evans, wcc@cup.portal.com
Webster Computer Corporation
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Phone (408) 954-8054, FAX ... 1832

Head Office, tom@wcc.oz.au, multigate@wcc.oz.au
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