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From: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mounting SUN Sparcstation  hard disk from mac
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Date: 7 May 91 21:25:39 GMT
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In article <13475.281e8367@ecs.umass.edu>, dmanning@ecs.umass.edu (Dave 
Manning) writes:
> My neighbor has a Sparc II and I use his hard drive from my SE/30 all of the 
> time.  I can also log in to the Sun and back up my Mac's hard disk on his 
> tape backup.  You have two choices Ethernet or Appletalk.  I chose AppleTalk 
> for price (although it is much slower).
> 

Sounds good.

> My friend has Tops running on his Sun and I have it on my Mac.  He has a 
> Gaterbox that does the Ethernet to AppleTalk conversion.  I just mount my 
> directory in the Mac's Finder, and treat them as Mac documents.  
> 

Now why is AppleTalk cheaper if you need a GatorBox?  Hopefully this $2,000+ 
cost is shared by more than one person.  TOPS?  Yech.  Why not use a standard 
protocol?  Even the GatorBox will let you use NFS.  Or you could get NFS from 
one of two other companies (InterCon Systems, and Wollogong).  For about $295 
plus the cost of an ethernet card, these days going for about $200.

> I use VersaTerm Pro to access Unix, although Telnet will also work.  I prefer 
> the atmosphere of VersaTerm, though.  Note that VersaTerm is not public 
> domain (around $190).

VersaTerm will run over the network too.  If you have an older version of 
VersaTerm you can use a product we sell, InterCon's Telnet Driver/Tool, to 
connect over the network via telnet.  Or you could get one of the PD or 
Commercial telnet, FTP, mail, etc. packages.


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