tom@litle.litle.COM (tom hampton) (06/05/90)
So far, I have heard a lot about products that might be suspected of allowing a Mac to store files on a system which supports NFS. Is anyone actually using these things? I have heard that the Gatorbox/Gatorshare works to make NFS look like Appleshare to a Mac. This would be perfect. Does it really work? Is it the only game in town?
mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (06/06/90)
In article <4842@litle.litle.COM> tom@litle.litle.COM (tom hampton) writes: >So far, I have heard a lot about products that might be suspected of >allowing a Mac to store files on a system which supports NFS. Is >anyone actually using these things? > >I have heard that the Gatorbox/Gatorshare works to make NFS look like >Appleshare to a Mac. This would be perfect. Does it really work? It works for me. I use my unix account as a backup device for my 40 meg hard disk. Its slow but its better than floppies. -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora SRI International mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________
stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) (06/07/90)
In article <4842@litle.litle.COM> tom@litle.litle.COM (tom hampton) writes: >So far, I have heard a lot about products that might be suspected of >allowing a Mac to store files on a system which supports NFS. Is >anyone actually using these things? We are. >I have heard that the Gatorbox/Gatorshare works to make NFS look like >Appleshare to a Mac. This would be perfect. Does it really work? Well, it works okish. We had some problem configuring it (partly the complexity of parts of it, partly our density). It does generally work, but is a bit sluggish and for a while we did something to the gatorbox settings that caused our three VAXes to do the big crash-ho with some kernel panic. I'm not sure that it's strictly the GatorBox's fault, since a remote client should not be able to make NFS die like that, but it was a problem. They have a software upgrade (supposed to work better/faster) that we sent for and are awaiting with blue faces (bated breath ...). >Is it the only game in town? No, somebody else recently announced an NFS client for the mac, but I don't remember who. Look through recent (last 2-4 weeks) MacWeek. Hope this helps, -Stefan -- ---------------------------------------------- MA Bell: (708) 260-4110 --------- Stefan Brandle UUCP: ...!{obdient,uunet!tellab5}!wheaton!stefan Wheaton College or stefan@wheaton.UUCP Wheaton, IL 60187 "But I never claimed to be sane!"