Mr. Mathews:
Thank you for addressing my questions:
At 7:21 PM -0400 2001-08-09, Terry Mathews wrote:
> > [...] can an older Mac running Unix or Linux network to a
> > newer Mac running OS X?
>
>Yes, OS X can access shares using the NFS protocol, which should be
>supported in Unix or Linux.
That is good news. (Of course, "NFS protocol" means nothing to me,
but that is to be expected .) ;-)
> > [OS X] has almost no capability of networking with
> > older Macs running older versions of the Mac OS over
> > an Ethernet connection.
> > [...]
>
>Coming in OS X 10.1, which is in beta at the moment. They
>wanted to get the TCP/IP working before AFP.
Oh, I so *very* much want to believe this is true! I read somewhere
that "AFP/AppleTalk" will be supported. "AFP" is foreign to me
("Andrew File System," perhaps) and I don't know its relationship to
AppleTalk, but "AppleTalk" sounds very good.
<off topic>
I just want *one* member of my gallery of Macs to be able to network
to OS X. On a larger scale, I can see how existing Mac-only sites
would be *least* likely to upgrade to OS X, since OS X doesn't (yet)
support *any* networking with pre-9.1 systems. I am happy to learn
that Apple sees fixing this as a priority for OS X 10.1.
</off topic>
>I believe any OS 8 or beyond machine can access AppleTalk via TCP/IP.
Is that true? My understanding is that only Mac OS 9.1 can access
AppleTalk over TCP/IP (i.e., it is the only system for which the File
Sharing Control Panel has the "Use AppleTalk over TCP/IP" checkbox),
and is therefore the only Mac OS that can "see" an OS X box. Even
with that, it seems to need a third-party extension called Shareway
IP. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>Don't know, I'm just now starting to play with A/UX 3.01 on my Q610.
*VERY* cool. I think I speak for everyone when I say that I hope we
can expect a full report in a couple of weeks! ;-)
Best wishes,
Clint
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