23 Mar
2002
23 Mar
'02
3:54 p.m.
I currently have 5 NeXT cubes, 1 NeXT Color Turbo slab,
16 Windows
machines (2 Win2k, 1 XP Pro, 2 NT 4.0, 9 Win98SE, 1 Win95, 1 WFWG 3.11),
5 Mac's (Perf 631CD, Quadra 800, PM 6100, PM7100 running MkLinux, Mac
Classic), 2 Sparc 5's, 1 Sparc IPC, 1 Sgi Indy, 1 Tandy 1000SX, 1 BeBox,
4 Linux boxes and 1 Canon object.station hooked on my home network. All
but the object.station (SCSI card problem) are up and running. I
suppose it's sinking to the lowest common denominator, but I'm using
Windows compatible networking (SMB), running Dave on the Mac's and Samba
on everything else to tie them all together. The only machine that
doesn't use TCP/IP is the Classic. It's set up on Ethertalk with a SCSI
to 10BT converter. The Localtalk printers are accessed using Services
for Macintosh on the Win2k and NT servers linked through an Asante
EtherTalk bridge. I'm playing with some NFS clients for Windows, Mac and
Be so I could use NFS on the Unix boxes and dump Samba, but Samba is
still working very well. The only flaky problam I've had with Samba has
been on the dual 133 BeBox. It's running BeOS R4.5 and Samba doesn't
seem real stable on 4.5.
I considered NFS and Samba but will likely go with Appletalk
for those machines that support it and FTP to/from the Linux 'box'
for those machines that don't. Since I don't have any physical
Windows machines, I'm not really interested in doing anything
Windows-specific, though that could come later. Since 5 of the
machines already have Appletalk available, that seems like a good
starting point and Windows can be made to speak Appletalk by
installing PC MacLAN. It would appear that VMS can also do
Appletalk with the correct software. If I went the NFS route, I
could get something like MacNFS for the two PowerMac's.
Jeff
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