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From: mha@memory.UUCP (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Networking MAC drives
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Date: 23 Feb 91 18:41:03 GMT
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Subject:   RE> Networking MAC drives             QuickMail Reply

In article <3132@hsi86.hsi.com>, tankus@hsi86.hsi.com (Ed Tankus) wonders:
> I'm thinking about purchasing a 180Meg SCSI drive to be shared among
> 4 macs via AppleShare. I would like to then mount this drive FROM a
> VAX running 4.3 BSD so the Mac files can accessed directly and the
> drive backed up to tape or Exabyte.

I suspect it would be far easier, and less expensive, to get a large additional
hard drive for the VAX, mount it using NFS, and take advantage of the
FastPath's ability (which I'm pretty sure it has) to convert NFS packets to and
from AFP (Apple Filing Protocol, used for AppleShare) packets.  That way the
drive would already be ON the VAX, and would be easily backed up, and it could
be readily mounted on the Macintosh side as if it were just any old AppleShare
volume.

If the FastPath isn't one of the devices that offers NFS <> AFP conversion,
then I am fairly sure there are software alternatives that would not be overly
expensive... I just wouldn't know where to find them. :-)

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