[WinMac] Re: ANAT / AppleTalk zones on RRAS VPN

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:42:11 -0400

I was looking to purchase Network Assistant, to remote-control our macs. I
spoke with Apple Educational sales, which is where you buy this product
from. They told me that Network Assistant is part of Apple Network
Administrator's Toolkit (ANAT) and it costs $399 for 10 licenses.

The bad news is that you cannot manipulate or connect to another computer
using just TCP/IP. The computers must also be on the same AppleTalk
network. In other words, you can't just put in the IP address of the mac
you want to see; you have to be able to get to that mac from your Chooser.

This is a bummer because while our NT LANs are connected by VPN, the Mac
users aren't capable of seeing the AppleTalk zones on our other LANs. Which
leads to a question: Is it possible to extend the AppleShare capabilities
of NT so that our AppleTalk zones "know about" the VPN links between our 3
LANs? We are using Microsoft's RRAS for the VPN, mainly because it's free.
Is this what the 'Enable Routing' checkbox in the Control Panel -> Network
-> Services for Macintosh -> Properties page would do? I'm a little afraid
to check this box, esp. since on our LAN here noone ever bothered to give
our AppleTalk zone a name.

Ian
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Craig Rash [mailto:cRash@pcci.edu]
>Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 9:45 AM
>To: Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Re: ANAT
>
>
> Reply to: RE: [WinMac] Re: ANAT
>Network assistant does support TCP/IP. I have never used it
>over a dial up connection. I imagine you would experience a
>signifigant decrease in performance, but with a reliable
>connection it should work.
>
>Craig Rash <cRash@pcci.edu>
>Tech Support Coordinator
>Pensacola Christian College <http://www.pcci.edu>
>
>
>Alex Dearden wrote:
>>>The other half of ANAT is called Network Assistant. This
>little tool is a >>great time saver. It allows remote
>control, remote administration, remote >>software install,
>screen sharing and many other features. We use this >>not
>only in our labs but also in our offices, especially on
>machines in >>other buildings that are hard to get to, on
>kiosks, even on "trouble" >>users' macs that are just down the hall.
>>
>>Does it allow administration over the internet (or at least a
>modem)? Or >do I have to use Apple Remote Access for that?
>>
>>Alex Dearden
>>pata@doglover.com

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