1 May
2002
1 May
'02
3:11 a.m.
From: Chris
Thank you both! ;)
We'd best just agree to disagree about Apple
Computer Co product quality.
I'm sure not aiming to start another flame war :-)
One thing that
I've wondered is how one gets an old MAC to talk on the
Ethernet when it's a mixed environment with Netware and Windows NT
servers..
What do you know about that?
Most Macs, since sometime in the early 90's have come with ethernet on
board. The exceptions were the home targeted models (like the Performa
series), where ethernet was an optional add on. Every mac since the G3
comes with ethernet standard (basically, with the death of the performa
line came the death of optional ethernet....
That pretty much means, every mac from the Plus on can support ethernet.
....
If you can't get AppleTalk supported, then you will have to add things to
the Mac to access the servers. There are 3rd party apps out there to
enable the Mac to speak to a number of different systems. If this is
something you want to do, I will be happy to discuss it with you, but it
is going to get off topic really fast, so we are better off taking it off
list.
-chris
26 Jun
26 Jun
7:20 a.m.
New subject: Gatorbox (was RE: APPLEVISION Monitor)
--- David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> wrote:
Or, if you can find a Cayman GatorBox GX-R, which
provides a
LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge, DECnet routing, UNIX-LocalTalk printing, and
UNIX based files services...
I'd been meaning to bring up GatorBoxen since I saw pallets of them
at the Dayton ComputerFest last August. ISTR they were in the $10-$20
range.
My only experience was with one (not sure about the model) at Scott Base.
It was fine until they wanted to change some networking parameter but
did not have the passwords (the technician who installed it had been
gone for years, and he probably gave the passwords to the Station
Manager who had been gone just as long, I'd wager). I think, in the
end, we couldn't make changes because we couldn't get around the
missing password, and shipping the box back to the vendor was not an
option because the next plane wasn't for 3 months.
So... I had contemplated picking up one of the boxes I saw at Dayton,
but was concerned about passwords. Does anyone on the list have a
GatorBox? If so, what models? Docs? Know of any backdoors to get
around missing passwords?
In the meantime, I'll stick with the $10 PPC Macs I've been getting, and
when I do occasionally need to fire up a Compact Mac, I do have a
SCSI<->Ethernet box that works fine.
-ethan
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