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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How do AppleTalk zones work?
Message-ID: <1463@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 89 06:56:56 GMT
Reply-To: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Setting up an AppleTalk net of Macs and LaserWriters is simple.  Adding a 
Kinetics FastPath box which ties the net into the campus backbone (Unix 
mainframes, etc.) makes for a flexible network.

Now we're setting up another AppleTalk net of Mac II's and printers in another
building, and the new net will be tied in with another K-box.

Could someone give me an overview of how AppleTalk zones work?  I'm guessing
that we could configure things such that a Mac on one AppleTalk net could
access a Mac file server or printer on the other AppleTalk net through the
use of zones.  How's it done?

I don't need the specific details of the procedure.  Just a general overview
to educate someone who's never seen it done ... (Thank you!)


John O'Malley           / Macintosh          / Purdue University / (317)
mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Project Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-9944