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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Cayman GatorBox questions
Message-ID: <4449@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 90 20:08:09 GMT
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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I'm evaluating a GatorBox/GatorShare combination as a way to expand
our NFS servers to Mac users.  I just picked up the software and
hardware late on Friday, so I'm sure some of my questions could be
directly answered by talking to Cayman tech support, but it's the
weekend, and well...  Some of my questions may simply reflect the
confusion anyone has when wrestling with new hardware and software
installations.  But my AppleTalk skills are pretty shaky too.

First, the configurations I'm planning involve Macs and GatorBoxes
on EtherTalk, using the GatorBoxes' AFP/NFS translation.  The only use
I envision for LocalTalk routing is to allow easy connection to
LocalTalk laser printers (including eventual use of GatorPrint to
allow UNIX lpr machines to connect to the same printer.)  But I
want the Macs's AFP requests to reach the GatorBox only thru ethernet.
In miniature, the configuration is as follows:

                  UNIX
Mac(s)		NFS Server(s)      GatorBox ************ (LocalTalk)
 |                 |                   |               *
 |                 |                   |           LaserPrinter(s)
-|-----------------|-------------------|- Ethernet

The GatorKeeper application which runs on the Mac seems unable to talk to
the GatorBox except through the LocalTalk connection.  If I disconnect the
LocalTalk connection and try connecting with AppleTalk set to EtherTalk,
the GatorBox is not visible.  Even after successful downloading and
configuration, when I search for an AppleShare server from the Chooser,
it identifies itself as being in a 'LocalTalk' zone, even though I might
have disconnected it from the LocalTalk network.  I would have imagined
that if I set up my Mac as being on Phase 2 ethertalk, that the the
GatorBox's emulated file server would be in this zone, and NOT on LocalTalk.

As I read this, I realize it seems a little incoherent.  As far as I
can see, the basic functionality seems to work, but I don't really
understand what is going on.  I'd also really like to be able to reconfigure
the GatorBox from the Mac without having to put the Mac on the same
LocalTalk net as the GatorBox.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu