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

Shawn Protsman(protsman[at]christianliving.net)
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:38:45 -0800

Hi Ian,

At 9:42 AM -0400 10/23/98, thus spake Pierce, Ian:
> 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.

I've reviewed the Apple Description file for Apple Network Assistant 3.5
and it appears that it would work TCP/IP without AppleTalk. The document
states:

  With this all-in-one solution, you can provide assistance to end users
... all
  from a central location, and over both TCP/IP and AppleTalk networks.
  (Administration workstation must have connections to all applicable
networks.)

> 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.

The last time I ran across somebody checking the enable routing box on one
of our NT servers the Macs couldn't mount the NT volumes on their desktops.
They couldn't even see them in the choose as options. Deselecting and then
restarting the server fixed this.

Shawn

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