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From: ssapozni@rex.lib.uci.edu (Sam Sapoznick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Power Mac to FBSD box???
Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:55:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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Bt Albert (at6500ft@sierra.net) wrote:
: I have a freeBSD server box. Using samba I can connect my win95 client
: box. I'd like to also (using rj-45 cables) connect my Power Mac 6100
: as a 
: client to my BSD box. Hardware is not the problem, network protocols
: is. Does anyone know of some software I can use on my Mac to see
: something on the BSD box or maybe a FBSD port that will emulate the
: appletalk protocol??

: thanks


Do a Web search on "netatalk" and "Columbia Appletalk Package" - they're two
Unix packages that allow hosts to speak Appletalk.

Netatalk works for linux, and supposedly has FreeBSD support coming soon.
I don't know about CAP.

Go look at their web pages...

     -sam