rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (08/22/89)
In article <401@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM> marc@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Marc Rhodes) writes:
Is there any NFS client software for the Macintosh that I can just
install and then "see" the Sun's server disc as a disc on my machine?
I've been trying for some time to answer this same problem.
To my knowledge, several packages exist along these lines.
KIP/CAP/aufs are PD but must be installed on the sun. They talk
appleshare though a kinetics box to a mac. There are packages that
purport to speak appletalk on the sun (I've had zero success with
either eth-udp or uab). Otherwise, you need a kinetics box to wrap
appletalk in UDP. I don't know of anyone with a appletalk in UDP (aka
doubletalk, aka KIP) driver for mac. I've looked. Apparently, if
there are people running CAP/KIP without specific hardware
intervention, they don't read the net.
Caymen, sells a box that literally converts appleshare to NFS and vice
verse although is purported to be somewhat slow, especially over
otherwise ether networks. It also doesn't quite make sense to pay
their price if you only want to connect one mac.
TOPS (a division of sun) sells a product that runs on sun, mac, pc,
etc, etc. relatively expensive @~800 for the sun and ~120 per mac.
I've never seen it run on sun so I can't say much about it.
MacNFS was written here in ann arbor about 1.5 years ago for apple.
My understanding is that apple has just released alpha copies. MacTCP
which comes from a related effort, (as is the now somewhat dated MacIP
available for FTP from uunet among others), is now being distributed
so this is encouraging.
This months' MacWorld has a writeup about "Liaison" which is a fairly
general purpose driver/gateway for mac. I spoke to them this
afternoon and while they have plans for KIP, ip, etc. it is some time
away for them. The person I spoke to mentioned "ushare" from IPT. I
haven't investigated Ushare yet.
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rich.