robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) (02/03/88)
Netlanders, Assume a company or institution that has a few UNIX file-servers running NFS or RFS, some workstations running UNIX and a number of PC's and/or Mac's. The network is based on IEEE 802.3 and uses TCP/IP as its primary protocol. I want to be able to use laser printers (PostScript, of course) from a PC or a Mac, log in to a UNIX machine via the network, send electronic mail back and forth between the machines and possibly use the UNIX file servers to store DOS or Mac files. What would be the best solution to integrate these two or three environments? Should I use TCP/IP, NFS, TELNET and SMTP on all computers? (Does it even exist?) Have I better use TCP/IP, NETBIOS and EtherTalk on the same cable and some kind of gateway between them? Does such a thing exist? I would appreciate any comment, suggestion and opinion on this, since these and related questions will probably arise soon, not only for me, but for many other as well. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Claeson, System Administrator, PVAB, Box 4040, S-171 04 Solna, Sweden eunet: robert@pvab uucp: sun!enea!pvab!robert
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (02/04/88)
I am interested in hearing answers to those questions as well. Most of all the Un*x I have to deal with is Hp's Hp-UX (naturally!). I would really like to have my UX boxes act as a file server for my macII (currently with Ethertalk card). After wading thru all the drivel in comp.sys.mac on shareware, piracy, dongles and cpu's it would be nice to get a dialog going about solving some real problems for Mac users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Williams dlw@hpda Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Ca Software Development Technology Laboratory Distributed Computing Environment Project 408 447-5425 Mailstop: 47LR "Sinanju, buddy -- the real stuff"