[NMLUG] Thanks!

[nmlug@swcp.com (Chris McKillop)]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:38AM -0600, Tim Price wrote:
> Your talk was very interesting. Thank you. 
> 

Thanks!

>
> I'm sorry I had to leave early. Since you had mentioned running QNX on a G4, 
> I had some questions. One in particular is if QNX supports AppleTalk?  
> 
> We have a network of 30 odd Macs and 8 PCs on Ethernet using AppleTalk. 
> I have two Mac servers running OS 9/AppleShare IP and two Linux servers 
> running at the office. One Linux server is an old Power Mac 7200/90 running 
> Yellow Dog Linux, the other is a Pentium 200 running Mandrake 7.0. I have 
> AppleTalk configured (which was very difficult) and running on both Linux 
> servers and it works great.
> 
> I recently installed Mac OS X (BSD 4.4 kernel) public beta on a new G4. 
> AppleTalk is preconfigured in OS X; however, I'm finding it doesn't work 
> very well. It will only allow me to connect to servers in the network or 
> to other Macs running OS 9 with the "Connect via TCP/IP" enabled under 
> File Sharing (this is the same in Classic mode i.e. running OS 9 inside 
> OS X). This seems very odd to me that I have full connectivity and file 
> sharing capabilities with all computers in the network on the Linux machines, 
> but not with the new Mac OS X. Of course, Apple's lame response to the 
> many serious problems I have encountered with OS X is that "..it's a 
> public beta!"
> 

:)  The current beta (and the CDROMs I gave out) do not support it.  However,
NetAtalk (which you are usin under Linux, and which I use @ home on my
gateway to let my wife share MP3's on her iBook) could easily be ported!  
In fact, this one of the many things I am personally intersested in making
happen in the next couple of months.  As a testiment to this easy porting,
one of our protocol guys got the BSD ipfilter layer working with our io-net
in about a week.

So we don't support it yet but I am sure we will very soon. :)  If you 
watch http://staff.qnx.com/~cdm/ under the networking section, that is
where I will be posting news and updates to drivers and protocols for the
networking under QNX.  

	chris

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