[WinMac] Re: connect to nt

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:13:32 -0400

        Another solution is to have the server (or NT Workstation, for that
matter) run MacServer IP from <http://www.teamasa.com>...

At 08:23 PM 7/1/99 EDT, Chris H wrote:
>>What happens if you put the server's IP address in from Chooser (I don't
>>know where to do it in Network Browser, I've only worked with it a little)?
>
>nope.
>
>NT doesn't do AppleShare IP.
>
>have to be able to connect to it with native AppleTalk. If the backbone only
>carries IP, then you are stuck.
>
>Possible solutions that would require cooperation on both ends would be to
>set up IP tunneling (of AppleTalk) between the two subnets (gatorboxes were
>able to do this years ago). But, if the campus has made a policy decision to
>only allow IP, I doubt they would be happy with that solution -- and you
>would need their cooperation.
>
>Another possibility would be Dave. I've never used it, so I am not aware of
>it's limitations, if any. If it makes you a true Windows peer, then you
>should be able to specify WINS servers by IP and get across. That's not
>AppleTalk.
>
>Yet another would be to run Virtual PC and do your connections from Win95 or
>98. The shared disk of VPC would allow you to get things from the Win side
to
>the Mac side on your Mac. The Win95 or Win98 would be able to address the
>WINS servers by IP and get stuff across the backbone.
>
>When Microsoft rules the campus, you become a second rate citizen. Imagine
>how crippled a Win95 station would be if the campus were totally Mac, the
>servers were AppleShare IP and in another subnet, and only IP were allowed
>across the backbone.
>
>I don't know any solutions to that one. Although I suppose people could come
>up with one.
>
>Chris Hoogendyk
>Network Specialist
>UMass Library, Amherst
>
>"second class citizen" managing Unix, Novell and NT servers from his Mac.
:-)
>
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