pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) (06/19/91)
Hi there. I will have the chance to put my GS on a dorm Appletalk next semester. I have a few questions. 1. Can the GS use the AUFS (Apple/Unix Fileserver) package (part of CAP?) 2. Is there some form of telnet for the GS? If not are there alternative means of using the appletalk setup to access IP machines? 3. What would be the minimum system requirements for the above? I currently do not have a hard drive. I have to make a choice between the appletalk line, or a plain 19.2K terminal line. I would prefer the advantage of the high speed terminal line over the appletalk, unless appletalk can manage to connect me to the campus IP machines. thanks dave -- David Pirmann pirmann@rutgers.edu Rutgers LCSR Operations pirmann@njin.BITNET
EWINGRA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU (06/19/91)
Answer on your IIgs questions: Supposedly, yes you can use the IIgs with AUFS, although I don't do that myself. I use my IIgs in conjunction with my Mac IIfx running File Sharing under System 7, and this works too. No, there is no IP implementation on the IIgs...yet. Myself, Paul Benson, and Todd Whitsel have promised to look into this and we have some code we can port, but due to our busy schedules, this hasn't been started. I would like to see some headway on this by the middle of next month sometime. Of course, there is no way to get Telnet if we have no TCP/IP. If you choose Appletalk, you will at least be able to print to laserwriters on campus, mount file servers, and be a peer client on the net for any future software. Apple might surprise us this summer with additional net functionality for the IIgs, who knows? If you choose the TTY line, you'll get terminal services, and not much else. Is it possible to get both somehow in the interim? Either that or string a wire from an adjacent room that isn't using their jack? Can this be done? --Rick Ewing Vanderbilt University
rmitchel@bbn.com (Rob Mitchell) (06/27/91)
EWINGRA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU writes: >Supposedly, yes you can use the IIgs with AUFS, although I don't do that >myself. Ummm, I believe that CAP-AUFS implementation is for HFS flavored file system (read Macintosh style) which is different from the 32Mb max ProDos partitions needed for the Apple II series. You'd have to modify the AFP protocol (under CAP) to support other types of file system architectures. >No, there is no IP implementation on the IIgs...yet. Is there a Communication Toolbox for the Apple IIgs? This would make network software development much easier.