Re: [WinMac] win-mac

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:36:49 -0700

matmon wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am looking for ways to be able to connect my mac, 9600, to a network of
> PeeCee linked by Novel in my workplace.
> Is it possible.
> What would be needed in hardware and software to realize it.
> TIA
> Matmon
>

What you need is:

(presuming you have a 10-base-T network) an ethernet cable, a jack, IP
information (if TCP/IP is running) and an account. If you're running
some other physical medium, you'll need the appropriate tranciever and
the appropriate extensions.

Appletalk file and print services need to be turned on, and the Mac
namespace needs to be applied to all netware volumes you wish to
access...this is for your admins to do. All releases of any size of
Netware 3.12 came with 5 client licenses for the Mac; Netware 4.x makes
no distinction between pc and Mac clients, only the total number of them.

Optionally, you want Netware's client for the Mac, as well. This gives
you a IPX driver (IIRC) and some other utilities, but if AppleTalk is
running, all you need to mount volumes is Chooser. I don't know (not
having done it) if you need to run AFS and APS if you're using IPX only.
If you have AppleTalk printers on your network, you don't need Apple
Printing services, as you can print directly to the printer; the only
reason to run APS is to direct print jobs into a Novell queue.

For an e-mail client, get Pegasus Mail, unless they're running some
other mail system, then you'll need a client for that as well.

Note, this is specific for version 3.12, 4.x is somewhat different. We
ended up going with NT over Novell when we upgraded, a decision I daily
wonder whether we'll regret or not.

/whiny complain mode

Neither NT or Netware 4.x do all of what we want as ruggedly as 3.12
did...not that we weren't having problems with 3.12, too. Sigh. We're
this > < close to tossing it all, and running Unix + Samba and CAP for
file and print services (we're already using Unix for mail and web
services), and using our remaining NT box for the remaining stuff we
_need_ NT for...

Unix is a pain sometimes, but at least we can _usually_ figure out
what's going on; we're running out of beads, rattles and chicken
feathers to shake at our NT servers

whiny complain mode/

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