Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eecae!upba!mcdchg!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!verber From: verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Connectivity Issues with Fastpath Boxes Message-ID: <301@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 08:22:13 EDT Article-I.D.: tut.301 Posted: Fri Oct 2 08:22:13 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 07:09:08 EDT References: <1185@lll-lcc.aRpA> Organization: Ohio State University, Computer Science Lines: 29 Keywords: Kinetics TOPS Appletalk Appleshare Security Yes, It is possible to use TOPS through kinetics boxes. We do it all the time. You can run any style of gateway and get things to work. As to protection, that is another story. The version of TOPS that we have doesn't yet support Zones properly. So your file servers would be protected in a sense if the different networks had different Zone names. This would not protect your laserwriters since the chooser and the laserwriter drivers are smart about zones. The latest version of the KIP gateway (you can pick it up at sumex:at-kip.shar) has some hacks to hide laserwriters based on Zone name. I know that Bill Croft is looking at some general way to hide anything requested from other zones which would effectively protect your resources. As far as using AppleShare -vs- TOPS I would suggest (if you have the resources) to use appleshare. It is much nicer for general users and admins that TOPS. A number of problems should as the desktop being shared by multiple people has been addressed. TOPS is great when you have a small number of machines in a trusting environment, AppleShare is much better on the larger scale where you want some security and central admin. Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber The Ohio State University verber@ohio-state.arpa +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-eddie!verber