jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest) (04/09/91)
The basic situation, we have some macs which have yet to be connected to the Localtalk network - I'm not going to go into the reasons why, but some of them might be delayed in doing so due to logistics. Pending real connections, I'm looking around for what else I can do. I've managed to get the AsyncAppletalk package working via our Webster Multipath Gateway and our Apollos with CAP6.0. However, I'm looking around for some way for terminal/mail access. My initial feeling was to get MacTCP working, but this had drawn a blank - the Webster was getting TCP packets wrapped in Appletalk packets wrapped in UDP packets, and obviously the code has not been written with this in mind (!). I expect that if the packets were delivered to the Webster as Appletalk, it would respond, but that would mean getting ethertalk/uab working on our apollos, and I can't even work out how to directly access the ethernet or register a manager for an alternative protocol. Anyway, that led to a search for alternatives. One of these was to thing about using the communications toolbox. Does anyone have a CTB tool that actually accesses a remote machine via Appletalk. If so one could write a server for the Unix end that did a telnet access - which would provide the functionality required. I'm reasonably happy to write Unix code, but have no experience of Mac programming. Any suggestions would be welcome. John Forrest Dept of Computation UMIST.