goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) (07/15/89)
I was talking to a product manager for a company that manufactures (or will shortly) Ethernet cards for Mac IIs. I asked about NFS. She mentioned gatorbox, etc. I said those solutions are hoaky and just want to hang a Mac on the net and get to an NFS server. Simple. She said I "had identified a new market niche for them." Geesh. What an original idea :) Anyway, I told her that I would find out what the reception of such a product would be. So here it is. Please send some mail to uunet!ingr!b11!goodloe expressing your interest: I would like to see Mac NFS or I don't care. I'll (of course) will post the results in a couple of weeks. Thanks. tony goodloe
kdb@intercon.uu.net (Kurt Baumann) (07/16/89)
In article <5476@b11.ingr.com>, goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) writes: > I was talking to a product manager for a company that manufactures (or > will shortly) Ethernet cards for Mac IIs. I asked about NFS. She > mentioned gatorbox, etc. I said those solutions are hoaky and just want > to hang a Mac on the net and get to an NFS server. Simple. She said I > "had identified a new market niche for them." Geesh. What an original > idea :) Anyway, I told her that I would find out what the reception of > such a product would be. So here it is. Please send some mail to > uunet!ingr!b11!goodloe expressing your interest: I would like to see Mac > NFS or I don't care. I'll (of course) will post the results in a couple > of weeks. Thanks. > > tony goodloe Apple is likely to annouce such a product this fall. Possibly at InterOp in October. They were expected to announce the product in June, but apparently pulled it at the last minute. I find it humorous that a hardware manufacturer who is just getting into the market would not have done a better job doing simple market research. From the letters and phone calls I have been getting there seems to be a good market for such a beast. But does any developer really want to jump into water that Apple is heating? It is a good way to get burned. Then again, perhaps there will be a flurry of products announced after Apples that improve upon theirs? Who knows. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 46950 Community Plaza Suite 101-132 Sterling, VA 22170 Phone: 703.450.7117
lars@salt.acc.com (Lars J Poulsen) (07/19/89)
In article <5476@b11.ingr.com>, goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) writes: >>I just want to hang a Mac on the [Ether]net and get to an NFS server. In article <1276@intercon.UUCP> Kurt Baumann <kdb@intercon.uu.net> writes: >Apple is likely to annouce such a product this fall. Possibly at InterOp >in October. The way _I_ would like to see this done, would be to put the NFS client in as a "foreign file system" the same way the AFP client is hooked in. This would be useful on local-talk equipped Plus/SE machines connected via Kinetics class boxes as well. / Lars Poulsen <lars@salt.acc.com> (800) 222-7308 or (805) 963-9431 ext 358 ACC Customer Service Affiliation stated for identification only My employer probably would not agree if he knew what I said !!
liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) (07/20/89)
It seems to me to be very unwise indeed to use NFS, where the server relies on the client to do user authentication, with Macintoshes (or indeed MSDOS machines) which have no concept of "user" at all. I don't know what the GatorBox does about this, but I don't believe that there is any way currently to secure a Mac even to the extent that you can secure a Sun :-) -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP AppleLink: UK0087 190 Mile End Road Tel: 01-975 5250 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Fax: 01-981 7517