Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!news From: timm@Sed.Novell.COM (Tim Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Macs on Novell v2.15c Message-ID: <1991May30.171526.8097@npd.Novell.COM> Date: 30 May 91 17:15:26 GMT References: Sender: news@npd.Novell.COM Organization: Novell, Inc. Lines: 29 In article widdicom@ADS.COM (Greg Widdicombe) writes: > I currently have a two server network, one server has a Novell NL1000 > card with Mac VAPs running, the other a Novell NE2000 with Mac VAPs. > The Macs that use Appletalk (PhoneNet cabling) can see the first > server, the Macs that use Appletalk (ethernet) can see the second. > > Q1: If I install a NE2000 in the first server can a Mac talking > ethernet then see both servers, and choose which to log in to? Yes. > Q2: If I leave the NL1000 in the first server and also install a > NE2000 as above, will this work as well (that is, a user can talk to > the server irrespective of their cabling, because we have both types > of cards installed). No. Any third party AppleTalk router would solve this problem. The FastPath, GatorBox, Liason, Apple Router, and even NetWare v3.11 with NetWare for Macintosh v3.0 will do. ++Tim =========================================== Tim Myers Senior Software Consultant Novell, Inc. "Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."