Re: Localtalk gateway/bridge

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"I.Dont" <I.dont@think.so> wrote in message
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> > I've experimented with Services for Mac on both NT4 and Windows 2000.
> > Unfortunately, as far as the IIgs is concerned, it is just one of those
> > scenarios that works on paper but which won't work in practice. I've
> > experimented with forced Network and Node numbers for the Mac running
> > LocalTalk Bridge and the NT/W2K server but the IIgs is always unable to
> > see the server in the AppleShare control panel.
>
> I've had some success by mounting an NT share on the Mac and going from
the
> IIgs to an alias of that... Sometimes the shared-alias stunt works, but
> direct connections from a Iigs to an NT server haven't worked for me
either.
>
> > My theory is that the IIgs has something wrong with Name Binding
> > Protocol which prevents it from seeing the NT/W2K server at all. I'm
> > not sure whether this is also true on a network with a hardware
> > AppleTalk router. One day I'll get around to taking a Gatorbox home...
>
> It *is* true, even with a hardware router. Your theory might well be
right,
> although I don't know why the protocol is acting up.

Well the NT Appleshare stuff was written by M$ of course. Why
did you expect it to WORK???? Really. It's Mr Bill's software with
it xxxx thousands of bugs. Really now. ;-)

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