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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Mac <-> UNIX connectivity
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Date: 3 Dec 90 17:39:42 GMT
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In article <90334.160805RGRE@MTUS5.BITNET>, RGRE@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
> What about
> TCP/ConnectII?  Would this work? How expensive is it for an educational
> insitution?  How well does it work?  Does it do NFS?

No, I don't think that TCP/Connect II is what you are looking for.
(However, I would suggest that you look into replacing your use of NCSA Telnet
with TCP/Connect II :-))

What you need is one of two products that are on the market currently (to
do NFS, and I am not counting GatorShare as you have already mentioned it):

1. Wollongong's MacPathWay NFS Client.  A NFS client that is controlled through
the control panel.  Contains a SNMP init, allows multiple connections to
be establish on bootup via an application (that you set as your startup),
contains a application called NetEdit that allows the editing of text files
on the sever (this is how they handle the CR-LF conversion problem), knows
about AppleDouble (but not AppleSingle), those are the major items I can
think of off hand.

2. InterCon's NFS/Share. Again a NFS client that runs on the Mac which is
controlled through the chooser instead of the control panel.  SNMP, does
CR-LF conversion on the fly (so you can use any Mac word processor), know
about AppleSingle and AppleDouble (so you can share files with your A/UX
machine), multiple mounts on startup, disk caching, multiple users can mount
the same mount point, etc...

For full information contact each company.

info@twg.com (I think)

info@intercon.com
703.709.9890 X231 (sales)

Hope that helps.  AUFS/CAP, can be a pain, but there are a fair number of people
using it so you should be able to find what you need on the net.  There are
a couple of commercial type versions, IPT has one, and Mt Xinu has one.

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Kurt Baumann                       InterCon Systems Corporation
703.709.9890                      Creators of fine TCP/IP products
703.709.9896 FAX               for the Macintosh.


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