sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (11/07/90)
I'm reading Inside AppleTalk, and its making more questions than its answering. Let me try one: Suppose a workstation issues an FPGetSvrInfo (AppleTalk Filing Protocol get information about the server) call. Now, its the Server's turn to send an information block about the server. How does the server (ie. Macintosh) know that it got this call? And once it determines that, which call does it use to send (I suppose it would be called) FPPutSrvInfo ? If this question would be answered by the GS/OS Ref Manual (or any other manual I don't have yet) then please let me know. Thanks, in advance... Stephen Brown UUCP: lsuc!graham!pnet91!sb INET: sb@pnet91.cts.com
toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (11/08/90)
sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) writes: >Suppose a workstation issues an FPGetSvrInfo (AppleTalk Filing Protocol get >information about the server) call. >Now, its the Server's turn to send an information block about the server. >How does the server (ie. Macintosh) know that it got this call? And once it >determines that, which call does it use to send (I suppose it would be called) >FPPutSrvInfo ? Only if the local AFP implementation has such a call. I recommend you read the chapter on ASP, and any previous chapters until you get a feel for how many levels of software each AFP packet has to go through and what is done at each level. Then read the section "AFP's use of ASP" and things should become a lot clearer. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu