Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how to identify a machine by its number?
From: Tom Watson (tsw@cagent.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 1997 - 16:07:31 EST
Many people have discussed methods for finding out how to find a particular
user, given an AppleTalk address (zone/node). If you go back a ways, there is
a tool that Apple provided called "InterPoll" which can tall anyone who has a
Mac connected to the network the things that respond to NBP. The version I've
used (version 1.0.1, dated in 1989) works quite well with OS version 7.6.1,
using open transport (I assume it would work in Mac OS 8).
I don't know how available it is publically, but it was a fairly common tool
used back in those days. Before version 7 of MacOS, you needed 'responder' to
publish the name of the Mac (now displayed in Sharing Setup).
I'd provide a copy, it isn't that large, but I'm unsure of the copying
restrictions, or how this list would accept a binary posting. The program
itself isn't that big (130k).
---- Tom Watson Generic short signature tsw@cagent.com (home: tsw@johana.com)
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