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#! rnews 2094 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!firthcom.demon.co.uk!filter From: filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac,u-net.support.mac,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Connecting one Unix Box to a Mac Ethernet Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:55:36 +0100 Organization: Firth Consulting Message-ID: <199704272355362516089@firthcom.demon.co.uk> References: <AF857D019668BC51A@hearsay.demon.co.uk> <1997042612463637855@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <1997042622434917325@gothic.u-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: firthcom.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: firthcom.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2b5 Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39845 comp.sys.mac.comm:196969 ^CountB^ <bryce@gothic.u-net.com.delete-me> wrote: > I want to do a similar thing, but I want to connect 10 macs and a > printer to a FreBSD server. > > Do I need MacLan too? Hiya Count, Do you still see Icey these days? I assume that with FreeBSD, you are running an NFS server? I don't think MacLan connect will help you, it's designed for connecting PCs to AppleTalk networks. What you need is MacNFS which costs big money - around £200 per Mac, I've been thinking of doing the same myself, using an old(ish) PC as an NFS server. There is a project to create a freeware NFS client for the Mac, but at present the commercial softwareis all that is available. I got the following reply when I enquired about MacNFS: > We relicensed MacNFS to NetManage last July, and thus we no longer sell > the product. You may reach Netmanage: > > sales@netmanage.com or 408-973-7171 HTH. -- Steve Firth . FEATURE n. A surprising property of a steve@firthcom.demon.co.uk . computer program. A bug can be changed to a Random sigs for Internet . feature by documenting it. Config from sigFried 0.1a .