ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) (12/02/89)
Sorry if this is a repost, I'm not shure I did the right thing the first time. I have what can only be considered a bizarre problem. My office currently has a good sized PC lan. And I mean PC lan, straight from IBM for both hardware and software. So we have the IBM file server program and a token ring. Here's the rub, I would like to move into the modern age and put a Mac on my desk. Of course there is no version of PC Lan from IBM that will run on my mac. Has anyone met with this problem before? Another possibility is that my office is going to be getting Net Ware from Novell soon. I understand that this is AppleTalk compatible. What I don't know is wheather or not this will work over the existing Token Ring. Another problem that I have been made aware of is that Apples cannot use printers being served by an IBM node. Is this true? Is there a workaround for this? A further wrinkle is the fact that we have a very large network on campus that I would like to gain access to. This net is running tcp/ip. We are planning a gateway from the token ring to this net. I would like to use the mac on this net as well. Can the mac use any gateway currently available for token rings to tcp/ip on ethernet? Should we just go with ethernet for the mac which I know I can make work (others on campus are doing this)? Thanks in advance. Alex Jauch University of California, ADCOM (Administrative Computing) ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu Disclaimer: I don't know nuttin' about nuttin'
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (12/02/89)
>Of course there is no version of PC Lan from IBM >that will run on my mac. Has anyone met with this problem before? Yup. Apple has a token-ring card that plugs into the Nubus and lets you hook into an IBM Token Ring. I've got one hanging out of the back of my Mac IIx here. Work fine. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] When it comes to matters ourside your specialties, you are consistently and brilliantly stupid [....] with respect to matters you haven't studied and have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and plain misinformation -- unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it. -- Robert Heinlein to J.W. Campbell, Jr. 1941
scott@h-three.UUCP (scott) (12/06/89)
In article <36930@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > > Yup. Apple has a token-ring card that plugs into the Nubus and lets you hook > into an IBM Token Ring. I've got one hanging out of the back of my Mac IIx > here. Work fine. > If you want to put a Macintosh SE on token-ring, check out h-three Systems' MacRing SE. The marketing department can be reached at 800/ MAC-RING. Disclaimer: I work for h-three. -- Scott H. Crenshaw uunet!h-three!scott h-three Systems Corporation AppleLink: H.THREE POB 12557/ 100 Park Dr. Ste. 204 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (919) 549-8334