cmitchel@arco.com (04/30/91)
Is there a way to mount a hard disk on a sparcstation 2 from a macII ci? I want to be able to have the drive show up on the mac and allow you drag files to the mounted drive. Thanks in advance Charles Mitchell cmithcel@arco.com
resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (05/01/91)
cmitchel@arco.com writes: >Is there a way to mount a hard disk on a sparcstation 2 from a macII ci? I >want to be able to have the drive show up on the mac and allow you drag files >to the mounted drive. Yes, 2 general ways: 1. NFS - You can either get an NFS client for your Mac (InterCon and Wollongong each make one), or you can get a Gatorbox which will act as an NFS/AppleShare go-between. 2. AppleShare on the Sun - There are programs that allow your Sun to use the AppleTalk protocol and emulate AppleShare file servers. A freeware set of programs called CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package) includes as part of its distribution a program called AUFS (Apple Unix File Server). Rutgers U. is taking care of CAP lately and it is availble from rutgers.edu by anonymous FTP. I use it and like it. There are commercial products that do it too. IPT makes a product called UShare. I think there are others, but don't know them offhand. Information on this stuff is usually found on the comp.protocols.appletalk group. Good luck, pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD
dmanning@ecs.umass.edu (Dave Manning) (05/01/91)
> Is there a way to mount a hard disk on a sparcstation 2 from a macII ci? I > want to be able to have the drive show up on the mac and allow you drag files > to the mounted drive. > Charles Mitchell > cmithcel@arco.com Charles, My neighbor has a Sparc II and I use his hard drive from my SE/30 all of the time. I can also log in to the Sun and back up my Mac's hard disk on his tape backup. You have two choices Ethernet or Appletalk. I chose AppleTalk for price (although it is much slower). My friend has Tops running on his Sun and I have it on my Mac. He has a Gaterbox that does the Ethernet to AppleTalk conversion. I just mount my directory in the Mac's Finder, and treat them as Mac documents. I use VersaTerm Pro to access Unix, although Telnet will also work. I prefer the atmosphere of VersaTerm, though. Note that VersaTerm is not public domain (around $190). If your friend doesn't have a Gaterbox, you can always buy an Ethernet card for you IIci. They cost around $300 or so. Then, using Tops, you can do exactly what I am doing. To back up your hard drive, just copy the contents to the Sun's hard drive (assuming it is big enough) and use tar to put it on tape. There may be a way to mount the Mac's hard drive from the Sun, although I haven't bothered to try. Over AppleTalk, it takes about 5 hours to copy my 100 meg drive. Overnight, though, it isn't a problem. Hopefully this shows what you can do. If you need any further assistance, please send me a note. I bugged the net quite a bit in setting up my network earlier this year. I guess it is my turn to help out someone else. Good luck! Dave Manning University of Massachusetts at Amherst Electrical Engineering, class of '92. dmanning@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu
kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (05/08/91)
In article <13475.281e8367@ecs.umass.edu>, dmanning@ecs.umass.edu (Dave Manning) writes: > My neighbor has a Sparc II and I use his hard drive from my SE/30 all of the > time. I can also log in to the Sun and back up my Mac's hard disk on his > tape backup. You have two choices Ethernet or Appletalk. I chose AppleTalk > for price (although it is much slower). > Sounds good. > My friend has Tops running on his Sun and I have it on my Mac. He has a > Gaterbox that does the Ethernet to AppleTalk conversion. I just mount my > directory in the Mac's Finder, and treat them as Mac documents. > Now why is AppleTalk cheaper if you need a GatorBox? Hopefully this $2,000+ cost is shared by more than one person. TOPS? Yech. Why not use a standard protocol? Even the GatorBox will let you use NFS. Or you could get NFS from one of two other companies (InterCon Systems, and Wollogong). For about $295 plus the cost of an ethernet card, these days going for about $200. > I use VersaTerm Pro to access Unix, although Telnet will also work. I prefer > the atmosphere of VersaTerm, though. Note that VersaTerm is not public > domain (around $190). VersaTerm will run over the network too. If you have an older version of VersaTerm you can use a product we sell, InterCon's Telnet Driver/Tool, to connect over the network via telnet. Or you could get one of the PD or Commercial telnet, FTP, mail, etc. packages. Kurt Baumann 703.709.9890 InterCon Systems Corp. Creators of fine TCP/IP products for the Macintosh