Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!CAYMAN.COM!josh From: josh@CAYMAN.COM (Josh Littlefield) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Cayman GatorBox questions Message-ID: <9010191653.AA19825@saba.Cayman.COM> Date: 19 Oct 90 16:53:49 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 43 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 20:50:59 EDT lefty@twg.com writes: Message-Id: >I'm evaluating a GatorBox/GatorShare combination as a way to expand >our NFS servers to Mac users... >...[But], The GatorKeeper application which runs on the Mac seems unable to talk >to the GatorBox except through the LocalTalk connection... > I think the basic problem that you're having with the GatorBox is that it needs to be configured from the _LocalTalk_ side before you can access it from the Ethernet side. (We had this problem trying to configure Cayman's GatorBox at the ONC/NFS staging for Interop '90.) Yes, the GatorBox must be initially configured from LocalTalk. This is because it is not initially an AppleTalk router, and is not multihomed -- it only registers itself on LocalTalk, so it can only be found there. If AppleTalk routing is enabled in the GatorBox (it is optional), the box's basic functions may be configured from anywhere on the net, although it continues to "reside" on LocalTalk. The "Look in zone..." menu item in the "View" menu of GatorKeeper allows you to choose where to look for GatorBoxes. (By the way, thanks for helping us out at the ONC/NFS staging.) To provide NFS connectivity on a EtherTalk only Appletalk network, you need an NFS client on the Macintosh. Actually, if you have GatorShare you _don't_ need an NFS client on your mac. The GatorBox can provide AppleShare/NFS services to any Macintosh on the AppleTalk network. For EtherTalk macs this means they don't need to add MacTCP -- or anything else -- to their Mac. -josh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Josh Littlefield Cayman Systems, Inc. University Park at MIT josh@cayman.com 26 Landsdowne Street (617) 494-1999 Cambridge, MA 02139 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------