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From: srvarma@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ** Born 2 B Wild **)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Help With RU-CAP!
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.170431.13614@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 17:04:31 GMT
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I tried posting it yesterday but apparently it didn't go through. Sorry if you
have already seen it.
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Hi Netters!
  Pardon my ignorance as I am new to the world of appletalk/ethertalk and 
slowly getting used to it.

  We have a cluster of Suns, Macs, and a 386 machine. Macs and our laser 
printers are on appletalk and thus macs print directly to them. Suns use
Columbia CAP for printing and print via a K-box (oops, a Shiva FastPath).
I am also running Aufs on Suns and thus macs are able to store files on 
the sun. This file transfer, I believe, is done via K-box and is painfully
slow.

  I recently installed Everex Emac-SpeekLink Ethernet cards in all the macs
(both MacIIs and MacSEs) and our mac users use MacTCP (from Stanford) for
telnet, ftp, etc. I would like to use these ethernet cards for Mac-Sun file
Sharing. So here is my quesion (especially to Rocky and Charles@RU):
  
1. I heard about RU-CAP (version 2.0) over the net. Is this the right package
that I should be using which will establish ethernet link for file transfer 
between Macs and sun server and would eliminate this traffic via K-box? What
is UAB+ and where does that come into the picture?

2. If yes, will our Macs and Suns be able to print on laser printers (which 
are on appletalk) as before? AND does something need to be done on K-box as 
well? I need to know this so that I can ask our local LAN Adminstrator to
take care of it.

3. I also read some articles about EtherPrint probduct from Dayna Communi-
cations which puts your laser writers on ethernet. My question is: Does it 
entirely eliminate the need of AppleTalk cabling and K-box since Suns would 
send appletalk packets on ethernet now? Our entire dept. is moving in the 
direction of Ethernet and hence, if possible, we would like to eliminate 
other networks.

  My apologies if I have thrown in too many questions simultaneously. Please
respond asap or ideally, send me an email at any of the following addresses:

srvarma@zookeeper.cns.syr.edu (preferably)  or   srvarma@suvm.bitnet.

Thanks very much. I deeply appreciate any help.
Sandeep.

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