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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> 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: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:21:47 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3365E7DB.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> References: <AF857D019668BC51A@hearsay.demon.co.uk> <1997042612463637855@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <1997042622434917325@gothic.u-net.com> <199704272355362516089@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <33650228.1498@parkfish.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: goby.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Cache-Post-Path: mama.uvi.edu!unknown@lazlo.uvi.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39917 comp.sys.mac.comm:197155 Steve Parker wrote: > > Steve Firth wrote: > > > > ^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? > > > > What you need is CAP 60, which turns a unix box into an Appleshare > server (print server too). We use it all the time at my employers and it > works fine. E-Mail me if you need more info but a good URL to go to is: > > http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/appletalk/cap.html > > Its the home page for a CAP user group or somesuch and is very > informative. > > Steve Parker > steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk Another option is to use "NetAtalk", a set of kernal patches that implement an Appletalk server on a Unix platform. CAP is user-level code and so is more portable, but gives lower performance. I understand that NetAtalk is now a kernel config option in FreeBSD v2.2.1 (I have NetAtalk running on version 2.1.0R, and there were some limitations that may or may not exist in the current release). -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |