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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac Token Ring Connection to OS/2 Servers?
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.104529.2055@panix.uucp>
Date: 18 Nov 90 10:45:29 GMT
References: <1990Nov05.051105.21758@shl.com>
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In article <1990Nov05.051105.21758@shl.com> mark@shl.com (Mark Batten) writes:
>I have a Token Ring network with OS/2 machines running Microsoft Lan Manager.
>I have Mac users who want to be added to the Token Ring network soley to
>get at the WordPerfect files stored on the OS/2 Server (ie. read the existing
>files and create their own for the PC users to read).
>
>So, using Apple's Token Ring card, I can physically connect the Macs to the
>Token Ring network, but how do I get the machine to store/retrieve files
>on the OS/2 server?
>If the Macs cannot directly access the OS/2 server, are there any other
>solutions?

Well, this is less than a perfect solution, but you can try using Miramar's
Mac LAN Connect as a forwarder. I don't know how this would work, I've never
tried it, but it's worth a call. I don't know their number, but you can get
it by calling Banyan, which has a "strategic alliance" with them...

You'd have to put a token ring card in the PC, and ethernet cards in both the
PC and the Mac(s).

TOPS could almost surely do the same thing, but I can't imagine a more
unpleasant way to work...

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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