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From: A.Eric@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (Eric M. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Using PCs with CAP/KIP?
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Date: 27 Jun 88 00:24:43 GMT
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        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
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