> >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 .) ;-)
NFS means Network File Protocol. It's basically like AppleTalk for Unix
servers.
> > > [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.
AppleTalk is a means of two computers communicating over a network. It's
just a layer of the network stack. You've got AppleTalk that resolves the
computer network addresses. Then under that is the file transfer protocol.
This is where you run into the AFP/AppleTalk or TCPIP/AppleTalk. OS X 10.0.x
supports only TCPIP/AppleTalk and NFS. OS X 10.1 will support AFP/AppleTalk
and TCPIP/AppleTalk, NFS, and Samba (Also known as CIFS or the Microsoft
File Sharing Protocol, the file sharing used in Windows 95+).
> <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.
I'm fairly sure that 9.0.4 did the TCPIP/AppleTalk thing. That was Apple's
reason for why it took so long to open the File Sharing control panel (We've
got a big TCPIP network at work, but my Mac is the only one). I truly don't
know when TCPIP got added to AppleTalk, but I'm almost positive that it
happened before 9.1
> >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! ;-)
So far it's pretty cool, basically looks like 7.0.1, but with a Unix backend
that comes in handy. I wish it had more modern Unix programs though, so I
could do more intersting things with it, like port over Linux programs.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can port the newest version of gcc and make?
Terry
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