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From: jim@wvmtrcs.uucp (Jim Prouty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Gatorbox and Sequent - incompatible?
Summary: gatorbox does work with sequent server
Message-ID: <445@wvmtrcs.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 90 03:53:53 GMT
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In <1990Sep24.224212.21837@informix.com>,
cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes:

> Probably incomplete third-hand background info: we have macs which
> access unix files by way of AppleShare and a Cayman Gatorbox. Filesystems
> on Sun servers were visible as slow mac volumes, and all was well.
> Now important file systems have been transferred to a Sequent server,
> and the Gatorbox can't get at them.
> 
> The person who maintains the Gatorbox claims to have it direct from
> Cayman that they cannot mount Sequent filesystems; end of story, case
> closed.  But can anyone tell me *why* this should be?  Or better still,
> can anyone offer a counterexample of a gatorbox that does work with Sequent
> (and how was it done)?

Your GatorBox keeper is mistaken; I'm suprised at Cayman, too.
I used to work at QTC where I installed a GatorBox specifically to mount Sequent
filesystems on our Macs.  It also allowed us to mount the Sun's disks, too.

I recall that some trick was necessary to get it to work; something about the
Sequent's lack of RPC support for replying to the GatorBox's request for time and date.
Some permission/access file had to be created on the Sequent's file system so
that the GatorBox could touch the file to get the current time and date.

Once I got it configured, it worked pretty well.  I bugged the tech support
people a lot about the configuration problems, but they handled it pretty well.

--
Jim Prouty "A man is not the sum of his possessions"
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