[plug] [link] Good news if you interoperate with Apple gear

[Adam Davin]

Gooday All,

My understanding here (I could be wrong) is that as long as a machine
communicates using the reqired language (tcp/ip) and can be successfully be
connected to the medium in question (coax in this case) there shouldn't be
any problems.

As for file sharing there is bound to be some thing available that supports
apple share for linux or set your linux box up as a netware server and use
an apple netware client to connect.

Apart from this you have all the basics for file transfers ftp, http and
suchlike. As with yourself Brett, my Mac knowledge is pretty limited so I
can't really point you any further...

Happy to be corrected,

Adam Davin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:43 AM
> To: Perth Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [plug] [link] Good news if you interoperate with Apple gear
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story
> /09-25-2002/0001806695&EDATE=
> >
> > Apple(R) (Nasdaq: AAPL) today announced it is "open sourcing"
> the code for its
> > innovative new Rendezvous(TM) networking technology.
> Rendezvous, based on
> > open Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard Protocols
> such as IP, ARP
> > and DNS, uses industry standard networking protocols and zero
> configuration
> > technology to automatically discover and connect devices over
> any IP network,
> > such as Ethernet or 802.11-based wireless networks like Apple's
> Airport(R).
> >
> > Cheers; Leon
> >
> >
> >
>
> Does that mean that (eventually) we will be able to connect an Apple Mac
> to a Linux server?
>
> I assume that it cannot be done at present.
>
> I have been wondering, from time to time, about getting a cheap old Mac,
> and connecting it to our LAN, for testing website compatibility with a
> Mac browser interface. I do not know whether a Mac at present would be
> able to connect to a Linux server using TCP/IP, as I have little
> knowledge of Mac's.
>
> I am notsomuch interested in file sharing (the equivalent of Samba, for
> sharing with Windows), as just either accessing http files on the
> server, or, accessing the Internet (for live websites), via our
> gateway/server.
>
> We at present use coax cable for an ethernet based LAN (as opposed to
> useing CAT3 and a hub, for a star based LAN).
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
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>
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