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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 file sharing via modem ?
Keywords: file sharing, modem, stupid question
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Date: 12 Jun 91 14:48:04 GMT
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<2855244A.1508@ics.uci.edu> ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch):

><1991Jun7.153105.2514@vlsi.waterloo.edu> atschnei@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Todd Schneider):

>>Is it possible to use the built-in file sharing in
>>System 7.0 over a modem connection? What is required
>>to get this working (aside from two Macs running 7.0
>>and two modems)?

>Secondly, I don't think there is a product that is directly designed to do
>what you are proposing.  There are many apps that allow file sharing over
>a modem, but none that specifically take advantage of personal AppleShare.
>What I would reccomend is Timbuktu Remote.  It allows you do dial up the
>host mac from a remote station and USE the host like you where there.  It
>also supports file transfer.

Remote control of a Mac is not always what people want.  I know that Timbuktu
Remote also includes some file transfer capabilities, but if that is all that
is required, then likely setting up some skanky serial communication program
like White Knight in server mode and setting the modem to auto answer would
be much better....

>The other option (this is good if you already have a network) is to attach
>a network modem (Shiva has one, forget what it's called) and simply dial
>up the network and use the system 7 mac's files like you where there.

Yes, basically you are then attaching your remote Mac to the established network
over a dial-up serial connection.  Shiva has two network modems that I am aware
of.  One is 2,400 bps and the other is 9,600 bps.  The slow one is too slow for
any serious work and the fast one is too expensive for such a poor 9,600 bps
modem.  (I don't remember all of the features it didn't have -- I just remember
dismissing it as an option pretty quickly....)

There are other ways of doing this too.  Liaison will do this.  Set up a Liaison
router on the network and configure a dial-up network (you need a modem too, of
course).  Again the faster the modems the better....

Oh, and I should point out that _everyone_ who has a Mac has a network!  (You
just have to make sure that you have used the installer to put the AppleShare,
or network printer, or whatever, resources into your system....)  Both a Shiva
NetModem and a Liaison router will work on a "standalone" Mac....

>Another poster suggested Liasson.  I don't understand this suggestion, I
>was not aware that Liasson had dial-in capabilities.  As far as I know,
>Liasson is simply a router that runs in the background.  Please correct
>me on this if I'm wrong.

You stand corrected.  I posted another of my long-winded articles raving about
Liaison the other day.  See that for more info.  Unfortunately I never saw it,
and therefore didn't get a chance to save a copy, so I will likely have to re-
type the thing some weeks from now when it comes up again....

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