Subject: Re: access to unix devices
From: alex@alsplace.com (Alex.Alegado@norway.it.earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 13:59:35 EDT
At 8.55 +0200 06.26.97, Monika Sester wrote:
>hi,
>i wonder whether it is possible to access unix-devices from a macintosh.
>i'm thinking of using a cdrom connected to a unix machine.
>
>any answer ?
Sure you can. Mountable block devices like hard disk drives can be accessed
by a Mac if the Mac can speak NFS (and if you have NFS software on your
Unix box). Intercon and Thursby both make NFS clients for MacOS that let
you access any NFS volumes through the Chooser--you get a nice little icon
on the desktop which resembles an AFP networked volume.
If you're feeling frisky, you can get MachTen from Tenon Systems. This is a
full-blown Unix clone that runs under MacOS. If includes NFS client
software for your MacOS-only machines. MachTen lets you implement a
full-blown Internet server using a Mac so you get web, ftp, telnet, dns, et
al.
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