Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:49:24 +1000 From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> To: Capriotti <capriott@uol.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting MACs to Free ? Message-ID: <199704131049.UAA09346@solsbury-hill.home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 17:52:56 -0300." <1.5.4.32.19970404205256.0068a4f4@pop3.uol.com.br>
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> Any suggestion on how to connect MACs to a Free ? > Use TCP/IP ? There are, of course a few ways to do it. Most of them have been mentioned already. Netatalk, CAP etc... I use MacPPP and MacTCP on my Macintosh Classic. I connect it to my FBSD system via a serial link. It's a bit slow but I'm stuck with it I guess. :-) Ethernet is definitely the way to go if possible. Unfortunately a majority of the recent software doesn't run on my Mac Classic (limited to System 6) but NCSA telnet and Fetch do everything I need. As an alternative to TCP/IP, there are a few free, and commercial, UUCP packages available with email/news readers to match. These are ideally suited to offline access but they can be good if you can't get networking software to work on an older mac. Check out your favorite mac ftp archive for those bits and pieces and, also, read the book "Using and Managing UUCP" published my O'Reilly & Associates. I've just picked up my copy from my local book shop and I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty. :-) Hope this helps. Cheers, Joel...
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