Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU!A.Eric From: A.Eric@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (Eric M. Berg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Using PCs with CAP/KIP? Message-ID: <12409639315.11.A.ERIC@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 88 00:24:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: A.ERIC@gsb-how.stanford.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 I think I remember reading that IBM PCs (clones) connected to Apple/LocalTalk cannot access the files on a CAP server (assuming that the net is connected to Ethernet via a FastPath box) - there was no client software. Is it possible now that Apple has released PC AppleShare?? Has anyone tried this yet?! We tried this, and I described some of the problems we encountered in several messages posted to this list in mid-April (which I am resending to SHMULI%SHUM%etc). We have Apple's PC AppleShare cards in a large number of PCs and clones in our new faculty office building. The PCs are able to run Telnet and FTP (using the Stanford PC/IP software, modified by the Stanford Networking Systems software developers to use an AppleTalk rather than an Ethernet driver) through a Kinetics box running the KIP code just fine. However, we did run into problems with the CAP programs. In particular, the PC AppleShare hosts couldn't connect to an AUFS fileserver, and they couldn't send files over AppleTalk to the LWSRV program. According to Robert Lenoil of Apple, the problem was a bug in the ROM chips of the PC AppleShare cards. We now have new ROMs (or new cards, I forget which) that supposedly solve the problem. I don't know whether we've had a chance to test the CAP programs with the new cards yet. Eric M. Berg Computer Facility Graduate School of Business Stanford University -------