Re: Appletalk or GS/TCP?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <58um05$poh$1@scramble.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>In article <19961212224255339727@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
>>As far as the IIgs (or any other client) is concerned, the shared folder
>>is just a file server hard drive.

>Perfect!  Now, my next crazy question.  Can this be done over a handshaking 
>null-modem serial connection?  Or do I HAVE to buy new hardware as well?

   This is done with Appletalk on a PC running NT 4.x or a Mac. You
will need a way for both machines to talk Appletalk. On the GS or Mac,
that's easy. On a PC, as we've noted several times before, Appletalk
cards are rare, but they do exist.

   To my knowledge, there is no appletalk over plain serial lines other
than Apple's 'Appletalk Remote Access' (ARA), but that software was
only for Macs.

Nathan Mates
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